12:30pm The Big day.
From the moment I woke up until Eric came to pick me up, everything felt like a blur. Or maybe I just chose not to remember.
I remembered waking up, pretending I couldn't hear my own heartbeat pounding in my chest when I realized the day had come. I remembered going through the motions... doing my chores, eating breakfast, and absentmindedly telling Joyce and Daniel that Eric was coming to pick me up again.
Daniel had asked where we were going. I just shrugged. "He didn't say."
I didn't wait for a response before heading back to my room to get ready. I sat on the edge of my bed, my leg bouncing up and down—so much that if I had been aware of it, I might have told myself to stop. But I wasn't. I was too lost in my own head, too caught up in a nervous haze so thick it was like my body had gone on autopilot.
I remembered seeing Faith, her eyes lingering on me as I walked past her.