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Chapter One

Brooke

“Nothing weird about it, sweetie I know for a fact that a couple of us single parents are taking our adult kids with us It’s not a ‘date’, just keeping your old man company at his reunion”

My face feels tight like it ht crack if I even try to speak

“I told you about it weeks ago,” he chis in the pan

I kinda do ree reunion, but after the incident with the Trent photo, I figured he wasn’t going

We were putting soe, all the stuff I won’t need anytie stuff

“Oh ,” he’d exclaio, after your mom…” but he never finished any sentences with the word ‘your mom’ in them

Ignoring what he’d been about to say, he finished hefting h his dusty old box ofout a yearbook first and then a fraraph

Dad has never raised his voice at me, not ever But as soon as he saw the picture, he snatches it frorowled

“And this! This isn’t your business either, gi the back of the fraht in front of me

Apart froot to see enough, confir the other two people in the photo from the yearbook after my dad had stormed off

It was a picture of my dad, my mom, and my dad’s childhood buddy, Trent Latham

Best buddies for life until souess I’ll never know

Especially now

I haven’t mentioned the incident since, but I have to ad to his college reunion, let alone asking o with him if that was how he’s likely to handle his past

I kept the yearbook though, and after al over my mom’s photo, I can safely say it wasn’t hard to do