 and walked around. In the end, we all just crowded into a bench and cried together. Virginia offered nothing appeasing to my sense of displacement. At that point, all those years of torn friendships had took a toll on me, and I couldn't take it anymore. I didn't want to make new friends, only to leave them again. So when school started, I didn't talk to anyone. In high school, I moved to New York City. I despised it.