Two weeks and Elena wasn't feeling any more settled here than the night she first arrived. Rosa was nice and she appreciated having a place to stay with a fellow LGBT Latinx woman, but she missed her family and Syd. And despite seeming normal on the surface, this town was a little too weird, even for someone who loved science fiction.
She was out doing some shopping for school supplies. It might seem silly to start when there were less than two months left, but at least going to classes and doing homework were something normal.
When she walked past a boy who seemed to be around her age glaring at her, she tensed. It wasn't like she was used to being popular or anything. "What?" she asked, glancing down at herself to make sure she didn't have an embarrassing stain or something.