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18. DANGEROUSLY BROKEN EGO
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2024-10-29 19:42:56ZOE’S POV
The next day, I was a bit hesitant to go to the high school has I had no idea what was going to happen. My peaceful life was definitely going go get chaotic with Caroline’s arrival back to the town after these long 2 years. With that I really wondered whether the peace I had been drowned in was just the peace felt before the storm of after the storm???
Whatever it was the one thing that I really felt bad for was the fact that Zack was her boyfriend. She couldn’t be blamed for that choice as it was a perfect one but the whole blame of losing such a golden egg was completely
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