The car pulls into my driveway and I can’t get out fast enough. She never wanted me to come. Alexis tells me she hopes I feel better. Kaitlyn and Olivia echo her words, yelling out the window as they drive away. “We’ll miss you tonight,” Kaitlyn says. No you won’t. “We love you,” Olivia adds. No you don’t. As soon as I close the front door behind me, the tears start falling and the thoughts flood in faster and faster, tumbling over each other, pushing themselves to the front, fighting for my attention. I shouldn’t have gone.
See. That's what I said.
