Bella:

With each passing day, I prayed for this nightmare to end, but the more people called to give condolences, the more it sank in-my mother was gone. Father allowed me to remain in the Frost Pack with Alpha Fred because I wouldn't take no for an answer, but something in me felt it was the wrong choice. Everything would never be the same.

School made it worse.

How could I ever forget my mother when she was the principal of the school, and a memorial was set up for her? ...