Capri and I had spent the night holed up inside, doing girly things and enjoying having the whole house to ourselves. Mom and Nathaniel were away for another two weeks, their business trip turned into a holiday. Colton was off with his fucking mates doing who knows what.

It was early morning before school as we sat in Capri’s Mercedes. I stared at my reflection in the mirror, a version of me I hadn’t encountered before glared back at me with steel resolve. My freshly dyed sky blue hair matched the storm that brewed in my eyes. The same blue as the wig I wore when Devil made me perform. The same blue as Steele’s fucking eyes. This was an ode to him and his inability to break me, as he had promised.