There are moments you can pinpoint when your life went completely sideways. For Diana, it was the day she had to move back in with her dad after her college campus had closed because of the plague that shall not be named. She and her dad had always had a somewhat distant relationship after her mom left them out of nowhere. Diana had been a teenager then, confused about everything in life, and this had just pushed her further into uncertainty. She didn’t blame her father, but it was like they no longer knew how to be in each other’s life without feeling her mother’s absence. They slowly drifted apart, and life’s mundane routines made it easier. Next thing she knew she was off to college after an awkward hug from her father and a reminder to check in regularly.
A year had passed, and she had blossomed into herself during this phase of her life. She was no longer the quiet girl; she had made friends, she was religiously going to the gym, even had had a healthy amount of sex after losing her virginity to a sweet junior from the engineering program. So she wasn’t really happy when the public health equivalent of Voldemort hit, and her classes had all shifted to online for the foreseeable future.