hester

Don__ pretend, Bianca,_ he said. __ou__e smarter than that, and so am I. I finally figured out what you meant when you left. You said you were like Hester. I get it now. The first time you came to my house, when we wrote that paper, you said Hester was trying to escape. But everything caught up with Hester in the end, didn__ it? Well, something finally caught up with you, but you__e just running away again. Only, he_-Wesley pointed to my bedroom door-__s your escape this time._ He took a step toward me, forcing me to crane my neck even more to see his face. __dmit it, Duffy.___dmit what?___hat you__e running away from me,_ he said. __ou realized you__e in love with me and you bailed because it scared the shit out of you.

Hester glowered at her. __he biggest mistake a villain can make is to get caught up in revenge. Hansel and Gretel were two hungry kids trying to survive in the Woods. Mother thought she__ captured another pair of greedy, gluttonous brats, only to grossly underestimate them. Hansel and Gretel killed her because they had to. It wasn__ personal._ She glanced back at the old siblings. __oesn__ mean I can stand the sight of __m, of course. But it also doesn__ mean their story has anything to do with mine anymore.