Side Story 15:

Carmen’s POV:

This was strange. It was a word that didn't even begin to cover the swirling, disorienting chaos inside me. It was like I had been thrown from an empty, colorless book to someplace flooded with color.

Colors I remembered only seeing when I was very, very young, now bloomed and flourished around me. The library, which had been a sea of muted grays and different shades of black, was no