Chapter Title: (125) Heart-01

There's a saying: home is where the heart is. It's on a wooden plaque hung up in the living room of Marley's house. As cruel of a joke as it has been for years, Marley didn't have the will to remove it. She didn't have a plan upon turning on Aiden's car and driving from the parking lot, just that she needed to get out as fast as possible. She had stopped crying, and the emotions she had felt in the apartment vanished into a comfortable numbness. Because that's what happens when you don't know how to feel - you end up feeling nothing. She found herself in her neighbourhood absentmindedly. Instinctively. Most of her mind was too frazzled to come up with a better plan than where she had gone to before Camp flipped her life on its axis. In every good way, but that doesn't mean she isn't suffering the whiplash. It felt normal to pass by faded shingles. Unkempt lawns. Strewn garbage and beaten down cars. It felt normal to see cracked sidewalks and the flickering lamp posts that