Status: A zombie! It's coming back from the dead!

Maybe She's Breaking?

Anymore.

Today, when Ellie sits close at breakfast, I look her in the eye and sigh. She look surprised for a few seconds, then just scowls and looks away.

“Don’t say anything to anyone.” She whispers to me as we walk out the door on the way to school.

“If you’re going to let him push you around, that’s your business, not mine.” I say. I never talk to Ellie nowadays, especially not in such a smug sort of tone, so I’m surprised and almost a little sorry too.

“You don’t understand.” She says.

“I don’t even want to anymore.”