My eyes drifted away from her stare. "I know, but it’s hard." My purple met her sapphire eyes. "For so long in my life I had no one. No friends, few family members and fewer in my age. When I learned I had magic, I thought it would finally cure my loneliness. Yet all it did was make my life worse. When I finally had friends and loved ones? I did everything in my power to never let them go." My tears were now freely traveling down my cheeks.