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Morasped my shoulders and said those last words Words that have haunted
I lower my head and scrub ive hiive hiing a parade of trash through our house He kicked and spit on every good memory I had, and if you left ood in ive you for that
"I miss her," Dad says "Every damn day"
"Then why did you do it?" I de those wori rays of the sun hit the red in his hair Moirl--so they could have one with hair like his
"I wanted to forget the pain," he says like he’s broken "I wanted someone to erase the hurt, but the sad part was, they never did Not one of them did"
"Until now?" The pain leaks out of my voice before I can stop it
There’s hurt in his eyes and I’m not sure why Because he’s still in love with my mother, because he’s fallen in love with someone else, or a combination of both, I don’t know and after what’s taken place between us it’s hard to find a reason to care But fuck me, I do I do care about my father He’s all the blood family I have left
"Can we put away the shit that’s between us?" Dad asks "For tonight I pro, just like they have been since your mom died"
I nod, and when I straighten, Dad hugs h Hands offand I hug him just as quick and with the same amount of emotion
Dad keeps a hand on my neck as alk in, and if I didn’t know better, I’d say he had wiped his eyes The door shuts behind us and Dad calls out, "Let’s eat!"
Breanna
THE DEFINITION OF AWKWARD: riding hoirl who knows my boyfriend better than I do and yet we have absolutely nothing to talk about on the twenty-minute drive
Violet is pretty Fire-red hair, a bit taller than me She has this bohemian look I’ve envied since middle school Why it works with her--the ton of bracelets on her wrist, the whimsical way she can wear a pair of ripped jeans and a tank top with gemstones in a way I can’t pull off--is because she has the I-don’t-care-if-I’-the-sa? I just now realize it’s not the clothes she’s wearing that make me envious, but the attitude I wish I could be in every aspect of my life what Razor says I a Kyle that his pictures have no power overin defeat
"Can I ask you so?" I probe
Her car is old, possibly older than e bucket of metal are rolled down because either the car was built without air-conditioning or the systee, either is feasible