Dedicated to because she hates my stories but reads them because i force her to. ily. YEAR: 2016 FOR KADENCE GAARDNER, pretending that nothing ever happened is easy. Pretending in itself has always come naturally to her - from the moment she showed herself in her mother's uterus (everyone thought she was a boy initially) to sashaying down the halls of Avensgrove High as if everything were kne.