Chapter 30 - The Three Alliances - 3

Lanie and her grandmother spent their Christmas together with Althea. Since the both of them finally got to know each other, they became more comfortable with each other. Althea knew that Lanie was having a difficulty when it came to letting people enter in her life. Lanie was not like this before since they were young. Lanie used to be bubbly, friendly and easy to know but that tragedy really destroyed Lanie's life. That tragedy made her shut down her social life and made her build a thick and strong wall between her and other people. But that one characteristic of Lanie did not change. The characteristic that makes her even more vulnerable. She is a soft-hearted person. She doesn't want to hurt any people around her, the reason why she is torn between telling the truth and keeping it to herself.