That accident changed everything. Juniper thought it was because I blamed her for it, and that was honestly for the best. Better than her knowing the wake-up call it gave me, the realization it caused me as a teenager of why she got so under my skin, of why her determination to sneak into my family bothered me so much when I— It didn’t matter anymore. The confusion. The anger. It launched a resolution in me, and I hadn’t been able to escape it since. Fuck.

