Sloane’s shoulders slumped. ”I know.” She did know. She wasn’t so indifferent to see how this was impacting everyone else. It was obvious she wasn’t the same person she was at this point last year and she couldn’t figure out how to make the two worlds blend into something that could work for everyone. She also just couldn’t pretend to be that person from last summer either. Too much had happened and that was part of who she was too. It was taking a long time, she knew, for her to relearn how to be herself, but it wouldn’t go back overnight, nor would she b able to revert completely. Maybe that was why she couldn’t quite let go of Mr. Ashford yet; he knew who she had been in the wake of the accident and he seemed to accept her anyway, just as she was. Sloane wished everybody else could do the same, but also knew it was hard.

”It’s easier to breathe over there.” She muttered, chancing a glance at her brother, only to see consternation in his eyebrows and in the line of his mouth.