Chapter 169: Ivy

She made it into the parking lot of the library before she pulled over and began to sob. Huge, body-wracking sobs that made it hard to breathe and she didn't know what to do or say or go, or how to be.

She'd known this day would come. For the last three weeks, she'd done a mighty fine job of ignoring reality. Between telling herself that a Christmas miracle would come along to save her, and her hitherto untapped abilities to ignore what she did not want to think about, she'd made it through this stay in Long Valley without confronting the truth:

She was stuck a thousand miles away from her apartment, without a way to get back there, and the only choice left was to throw herself at the mercy of her parents. She had to tell them the truth.

Them and Iris and Austin.