Chapter 743: Chapter 243- Addie – Addressing the Rumors Part 1 (Volume 3)

**ADDIE'S POV**

Dread filled me. It was so overpowering, so overwhelming that I wasn't sure how I was going to make it through the morning. The decision had been made to address the issues, the rumors about me, at the assembly, but I needed to last, mentally at least, until then.

I didn't leave my room at all, and I was in the faculty building. There were just too many unknowns at the moment, too many ways that the people around me were going to react, and I didn't want to face it. I didn't know how the other professors would react, how the students would behave, or any of it. And honestly, just thinking about all the negative things was making me feel worse and worse. 

When it was time for me to head to the assembly, to publicly speak to everyone in the school about what was going on with my life, and why it was that I was with a professor, because that part of the rumor was true, I almost couldn't walk out of the room.