Elena’s POV

Four months sounds like a long time when you say it out loud but when I look back on it, it feels like it passed in a blur of court dates, therapy appointments, restless nights, and days where I tried to pretend that I was just a normal senior worrying about finals and graduation gowns instead of a girl whose name had been in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Life didn't snap back into place. Some mornings I woke up feeling almost normal, like I could go an entire hour without ...