“Vic, baby, please—let me make it up to you.” Under the tension that’d coiled in my psyche, fueled by losing both my parents in a single year, having to drop out of the college I’d worked my entire life to get into, and the injustice of this, being here, having to play this stupid fucking game… I snapped. “Shut your worthless fucking mouth, Kohl, before I shut it for you.”
