Page 97 (2/2)

“Good try, but pick another option”

Fine “Gradual”

“How does it feel to be a senior?”

Despite the ie that my life is about to suck, I smile I’d walked into the kitchen after ush to Mom about how Trisha and I were invited to Blake Harris’s party tonight

What I didn’t expect? Dad hos from hell “It feels awesome It’ll feel even better if you put that piece of paper in the garbage disposal”

“Please read it,” Dad presses “It was hard for your mom to make the decision to let you see this and we should respect her wishes”

My sto reaction fro: contact from her childhood home in Kentucky

Kentucky is a painful subject for her and there’s nothing I wouldn’t do to ease her suffering because, until Dad came into the picture and adopted me when I was five, Mom raised me on her own That deserves some major respect

Out of the corner of e of framed photos on the wall The ht by ten of the day Moown Slender Graceful Her sleek blond hair falling around her shoulders as she beams down at old compared to his black tux

He tucks a rose into my dark brown hair I’m five and focused on him like he’s Superman That’s because he is My own personal superhero He adopted me mere days before he married my mom

Dad clears his throat and I snatch the paper froht amount of ticked off I’ll wander down this dark tunnel of insanity for a few minutesfor him and my mom

It’s an e-ical father