17

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

~Maya Angelou

Lyra.

I hated this gathering, I hated that I was forced to socialize with strangers and most importantly I hated having to have been pulled out of my comfortable bed despite not feeling too well. All three of them knew I was unwell but still made me attend anyways, they claimed that if I could handle hours of school then I could do the same here, after all it was only going to last a few hours.

Barely enough second after we had gotten here, even my mother, the woman who was always supposed to be by my side granted my condition disappeared on me to socialize with heaven knows whom. She didn’t even bother to tell me anything aside from the fact that I should behave and do nothing that would embarrass either her or my grandparents, basically, what she did was make sure I never forgot the warning my grandfather had given before disappearing, neither of them wanted to be seen with me and I honestly di