Shaina knew she had to leave her house. She had to leave but was smart enough to know she had to wait until she was eighteen so her father could never make her come back. She was the modern day Cinderella in the fact her stepmother had made her do everything in the house and then took credit for it. Shaina was abused mentally and verbally everyday from her stepmother and her stepsiblings.
on the eve of her eighteenth birthday she started her escape and that led to her meeting Mackinley. Mac for short. He was a friend of her brothers who had called for help getting his youngest sister out of the house. She waited until midnight and then made her escape right into Mac's arms though she didn't know it. She was finally outside the circle. Then she got to draw another one.