There was talk, of course, whispers about other students. One had supposedly threatened to drown herself when he broke it off. Another had an abortion and left school with a hefty check for her silence. She had written it off at the time, chalking it up to campus gossip. Until she came home early one afternoon and found Marybeth and Daniel in the kitchen, making eggs together. Daniel was in his pajama bottoms. Marybeth was wearing the Brooks Brothers robe Ashlyn had given Daniel for Christmas, her hair still wet from the shower. True to form, Daniel had blamed her. For not being supportive
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Ashlyn is tragic enough! I don't know if I've highlighted any of it but there's also a mother dead of cancer and a father that took his own life shortly thereafter. it's hard to keep all the tragedy straight with Belle also having lost her mother to a mental health battle.
