Disappeared at Dawn

Summary

1.

The year I turned fourteen, I fell in love with Julian Croft.

That day, he looked me straight in the eye and said coldly, "Listen, Nat… you’re not special to me. You're just living here for a while."

Then, he brought April home from foster care.

On my eighteenth birthday, I confessed my love to him for the first time.

He just frowned and said, "Don't think about things you shouldn't. I'm your professor at MIT. There are lines we can't cross."

Then, he got a girlfriend.

At twenty-four,