River isn’t speaking to me. Oh, I don’t mean that we’ve had a row or anything, he’s just not speaking. Before we left I asked him again if he was sure he wanted to come and he swore to me he was, that he wanted to be there for me, but the look in his eyes didn’t match the words coming out of his mouth.
I know he doesn’t like the way I look. It felt important to me to wear the clothes they’d bought me, Ariel and Asher. So I did. I’ve bought some new cosmetics, although River wasn’t keen, and t