Little Secrets

by Jennifer Hillier

but over time, it became clear that sometimes two people just don’t get along. And never will, no matter what you do. The two of them could not be more opposite.

Who would have thought that who you love and who you feel safe with might not be the same person?

“You know what it’s like having a child?” her mother once said to her, when Kenzie was eight. She’d asked to sleep over at her best friend Becca’s house. “It’s like your heart walking out the door on two legs, vulnerable and unprotected. It’s scary as hell.”