“I feel like I didn’t just lose her,” I tell him. “I lost you too. Difference is, you’ve been here this whole time. And somehow, somehow that’s just as bad, if not worse.” I look away. “I didn’t have a family, Mase. You were my family. You and Izzy.” I bark out a humorless laugh and shake my head. “Fuck, I don’t think I would have made it if I didn’t have you two growing up.”
