Violet

I slowly swept my gaze across the room, letting my eyes linger on them. Their faces were pale and rigid, some frozen in shock, others stiff with anger at my sudden appearance.

I ignored them all, as if they were nothing more than background noise. After all, I hadn’t come here for them. I didn’t care what they thought, didn’t care what verdict they had already passed in their narrow minds.

People like them would never believe me. In their eyes, I was just a scholarship student, poor, disposable, easy to sacrifice for the school’s reputation. Someone to erase quietly, like a stain on a white board. So I...