Chapter 3

When Rebecca was thirteen, news of her parents’ divorce had already circulated around the school.

The whispers started in the classroom before slowly spreading throughout the hallways. She was by no means popular, but she was still a transfer student, and coupled with her recently withdrawn behavior, people naturally began talking.

Some of her classmates looked at her with pity, while others simply glanced at her before turning away to continue their conversations.

Nobody actually said anything to her directly, but Rebecca had heard enough from the snippets she caught.

“I heard her parents got divorced...”

“Her father left her…