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~Zella's Point of View~

I stayed in my room the rest of the day, staring at the ceiling with the same thought repeating itself on a loop, as if my brain had become stuck and could not move forward with anything else.

"I lost my virginity to a stranger, and the stranger turns out to be my best friend's father."

Each time the thought was completed, I felt a new wave of something that wasn't exactly horror or exactly shame, but lay somewhere in between. I pulled the comforter up over my face, a