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“You didn’t need to” He interrupted lared into me “It’s just the type of person he is Once you’re part of his life, he’ll give up everything in order to take care of you Which is why the ether, the more distressed I become”

“I’m sorry, did you come all the way here to tell me what type of person Theo is? Because I know—”

“If you kno can you live with putting hih all this unnecessary stress?” he asked, and for so at the sea half of our lives, and here you areeven harder The reason Lorelai and I can’t accept you is because you are like a dark cloud floating over his head, adding to the issues Of all my sons, Theodore is the one I can always count on to never let me know With your sickness, you’re just another burden he has to carry, and because he is a hardheaded fool, he’ll bear it all That isn’t fair to him—”

“Please leave!” I didn’t want to listen to this anymore

“Felicity” He sighed deeply, gripping the edge offor my sons I want them to by happy It’s all I want… ask yourself honestly, do you think you could do that for Theo? Can youreasonably, you’ll see you can’t What if you both had kids? He’d have to deal with your sickness twice over—so your own father proved he couldn’t do—”

“GET OUT NOW!” I didn’t hold back, ignoring the sting in my eyes

“Please let hio I can’t afford to worry about hi just as quietly as he came in

Pulling my knees to my chest, I tried to calm myself down What made all of this worse was the fact that I wanted to talk to Cleo and Mark They weren’t real But I still wanted to speak to them That proved how pitiful I was I had no one but Theo

I just wanted to be normal I wanted to be the person his uncle wanted me to be The type of person that , I still felt broken

When would this end?

Leaning over, I pressed the nurse button, waiting only a few seconds before a nurse in purple scrubs came

“Did you need so, Ms Ford?”

It’s Harper

“When is ery?”

“Nine am on Sunday,” she said to me