BEA | JOSIE
I'm not telling you now because I need sympathy. I just didn't want you to find out a small part of the truth and have to make your own assumptions about it.
You are one of the few people I actually trust, Josie. I didn't tell you for a few reasons, but none of my reasons have anything to do with not trusting you. I'm so close to being 18 and I thought, if I could just make it to 18, everything would be fine. In retrospect, it probably still wouldn't be as fine as I imagined, but at least I'd never have to go back into the system.