#Chapter 36: Glow

Aria & Third Person Aria I couldn’t shake the image of those glowing eyes out of my mind. Darren always had beautiful eyes, as did Lucas. I had always loved the appearance of heterochromia—such a unique trait in what I once thought was a mundane world. But seeing them glow like that… somehow, it unlocked a memory I’d almost completely forgotten. I had seen those eyes before, or something very close to them. Years ago. In a barn, when I was just a child, frightened and alone. At that time, even as a child, I had chalked it up to a trick of the light. There was no way my stray puppy’s eyes had glowed when he protected me from my abusive sister. Now… I wasn’t so sure. “Hey.” The sound of Lily’s voice snapped me back to the present. I lifted my head to see her eyes poking up from over her cubicle, her fresh nails—pink with little red hearts—gripping the felted partition. “You okay? You’ve been staring at that spot on your screen for a while now,” she c