Hopeless by McKayla Box

I didn’t choose to go back to Playa.
But when your father leaves your mother half a world away, you don’t get a choice.
So I’m back where I grew up.
Back where I don’t want to be.
And back where no one wants me.
Because I’m pissing people off as soon I set foot in town.
Including him.
He acts like I should be grateful to breathe the same air he does.
Yeah.
No.
So now he’s out to make me miserable.
And it’s not just him.
There are other people, too, who are determined to make my life a living hell.
Including the one person I thought was my friend.
But they don’t know me.
They don’t know that I’m not the same person I was when I left Playa.
A nobody.
Invisible.
But they’re about to find out.