Chapter 128 Different World

***Hazel***

The drive feels… different.

Quieter.

Not tense in the same way as before—but not calm either.

Like everything has shifted into something else entirely.

I sit in the backseat, Gideon beside me, his arm stretched along the seat behind me like it belongs there, like I belong there. Jocelyn is pressed against my other side, scrolling on her phone but glancing at me every few seconds like s