Chapter 76

• My leadership was met with a lot of resistance – as expected. No one outrightly said anything to me but there was a lot of passive aggressiveness. I had to work with Dahlia and a boy named Daniel. Of the both of them, Dahlia was the most amiable as Daniel had trouble concealing his hatred for me. He was nineteen at most so I didn’t understand why he was so averse to my leadership but it turned out he just hated me as a person.
• “Oh, Daniel, he’s just a kid. Angela’s niece was his girlfriend,” Dahlia informed me one day when the teen all but broke my door in half as he left seething after I asked him to do some work.
• I’d all but forgotten about Angela until Dahlia mentioned her. I couldn’t even remember if her family got banished along with her. Angela got her family into this mess but I guess it was easier for Daniel to hate me than the person that caused his relationship to fall apart.