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"What with all the Christmas music and the way this house is decked out with more decorations than the entire town of Lawton? How can it not feel like Christirl looked away fro is what it seems Not everyone is what they should be or appear to be"
How old was this girl? She talked like she was grown But she didn’t look any older than Brady and ?" I asked I knew about girl drama Happened at school all the ti back attired of trying to cheer her up, because I obviously sucked at it "Whoever it is isn’t worth your tilanced back at ive our tiet to choose our parents, for exaet to make their decisions for them So it’s not that simple He’s my dad I love him I have to love him But he hurts her She tries so hard to make hiht He’s supposed to be here He promised her he would be"
I didn’t knohat that felt like My parents loved each other and I could never iirl had a very different life One I wasn’t envious of Even if her house was bigger than the church I went to on Sunday It was even bigger than Gunner Lawton’s house, and that was big
"Then yeah, that sucks," I said, not knohat else to say
"Yeah, it does," had been her only response
Brady had called my name then, and because I didn’t knohat to do or what to say, I left her there When she’d come to eat, I couldn’table to help her And for knowing her secrets
We were both in the photo that they’d taken that night When I saw her little girl face, the otten about that girl and what she’d toldGod for ood ones
"That was you," I said, looking at her as o back and hold She’d shared her secrets with a stupid boy who’d done nothing to make her feel better
She frowned as if she didn’t knohat I was talking about, and then her eyes lit with understanding "Oh ht But it was just one of ently brushed over my face in the photo
"You were the only person I ever told that to I regret that Not telling anyone ht have saved her if I had," she whispered, lost in her thoughts
I pulled her against rets "You were a kid We both were Confused kids who didn’t know the right answer to anything He was your father You loved hi you couldn’t control"