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It wasn’t a bad one, per se, but it didn’t feel good, either

I idly wondered when it would feel norain

I et back at it cohts and stuff, but just the everyday stuff—like washingLaric a daht—was a reminder that I’d been shot

“What’s that look for?” Adam asked suspiciously

I grinned full-out then “Dad called Laric my man”

Adaed “Don’t talk about sex to your brother”

I rolledabout S-E-X,” I spelled out “I said ‘Dad said Laric was my man’ What part of that had S-E-X in it?”

“Why are you spelling out sex?” Adahter isn’t a virgin anymore?”

I felt my face heat, but I didn’t turn around and pretend that I wasn’t hearing what he was saying Adam and I did this—eame we liked to play

“Dad, did you know that when Adam was seventeen, he did some cheerleader in the school bathroo about how ‘fast’ Adam finished?”

My dad’s face was bored as he ignored us and drank his coffee

“Well, at least I didn’t try to give so the state football game,” he said

I gasped “I did not!”

Adarinned “You did, too I heard about it fro it is to hear that your sister has a ‘suck’ like a ‘Hoover vacuum?’”

I narrowed my eyes “I did not ever do that It was a hand job!”

My dad sighed “Why can’t y’all be normal?”

Ada If you wanted normal kids, you should’ve raised us to be normal kids”

“I blaruo to the Keurig in the corner “Y’all are seriously fucked up”

I giggled and went back to the rooain, les, when my eyes lit on the paper next to my pillow

Ito my sides, and read the note

Call ood day – L

I smiled at the note, then reverently picked it up and folded it before placing it innext to his closet