I could still remember Phoebe clinging to Gary and bawling her eyes out that day. She’d hiccuped while describing the last time she’d seen the hair clip. At the end, she’d added, ‘ Holly said it was nice, too.”
Just like that, everyone somehow got it into their heads that I’d stolen the hair clip. They’d refused to believe me, no matter how I’d explained myself.
They’d locked me up and forced me to admit that I’d stolen the hair clip. They’d refused to let me out before I returned it.
I’d pounded on the door and begged them to let me sit for my exams–I would let them do whatever they wanted to me after that.
Initially, my brothers had still mocked me. Later, they’d gone silent. My screams and shouts were the only sounds in the spacious villa.
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I was set free two days later. Phoebe’s hair clip had been found–she’d left it somewhere else after taking it off.
I waited for them to apologize to me, but it never came. All they did was warn me to know my place.
I’d been trapped in my ivory tower like the princess in the fairy tale. She’d managed to flee, but I was trapped there for life.
