Nicole Harper
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By the time five o’clock finally rolled around, I was mentally exhausted. The actual work hadn’t been difficult. The hardest part of work had been pretending not to notice everyone staring at me.
Every time someone laughed, I found myself wondering if they were laughing at me.
By the end of the day, I just wanted to go home, lock my door, crawl into bed, and pretend the world didn’t exist. I packed my bag quickly and left before anyone could stop me and headed down to the parking lot.
The drive back was miserable. My phone kept buzzing with messages I didn’t want to read. Rhea had called three times. Clara had called twice. As for Talia, she was still blowing up my phone. I couldn’t bring myself to answer any of them.
I was so close to my apartment. Then I could fin
