*Caterina*
I walked up our front steps, wondering if I would even manage to make it through the front door or if I would just collapse on the porch swing. It wasn’t even lunchtime yet, but I felt like I could damn near fall asleep for the night.
‘You want to be in school, you want to be in school…’ I had repeated to myself thousands of times as I sat through my lectures and diligently took notes.
Although I knew that getting my education was the right choice right now, it was hard to remember exactly why it all mattered when I was so exhausted.
Trying to balance life with Elio and my schoolwork had proven to be more difficult than I had expected. I could feel myself moving further away from the mafia work that I had worked so hard to be a part of, but I knew that getting my degree would be worth it.
