Chapter 97

Chapter97

The parent-teacher day came around.

Seeing my classmates with their parents, I felt a growing resentment. toward Ashley. I often found myself wondering, who was the real child here, her or me?

No answers came my way.

I got the seat closest to the teacher's podium.

Parents streamed in, and it seemed like everyone was staring at me.

The whispers started, "Her parents are around, but why show up for one kid's conference and skip the other's?"

"What kind of parents play favorites like that?"

The headteacher walked in last, and the empty seat next to me didn't. escape her notice.

In my previous life, I sat there in the corner. Feeling all those eyes on me, I couldn't take it and rushed out in a huff.

But this time, I didn't dodge the glances. "Sorry, my folks can't make it," I told the teacher, who understood my situation and gave me a sympathetic

nod.

it up and headed home, the same as

them. It was like my

spot.

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wiping Ashley's forehead,

over from college, offering her

remember what they

a second, that they'd turn around and see me, their other

was always there

they never

car. I instinctively checked my

felt a pang

in the evening, but

usual burger joint. That was when

connected, he snapped, "Where the hell have you been? It's not the

lost. "Grace, did I say something

your

in, "We're not going to miss you if

was so

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