Chapter 17

• Arabella
• I feel myself starting to wake up and my face hurts, but I don’t think it’s from crying, I think it’s from getting too much sleep, I move to stretch but feel a body next to mine, so I look over my shoulder and I see the side of my mom’s face. I clear my throat slightly and it seems she was only half sleeping because her head lifts off the pillow to look at me and when her eyes meet mine I can almost feel her anguish.
• “Oh Ari…are you okay sweetie?”