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.

I packed it up and headed home, the same as

the school gate, I saw them. It was like

spot.

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mom, wiping Ashley's forehead, my dad carrying her

who'd rushed over from college, offering

could barely remember what they tasted

wished, just for a second, that they'd turn around

always

they never

got into their shiny new car. I instinctively checked my phone,

felt a pang of

waited until seven o'clock in the evening, but

starving, so I hit my usual burger joint. That was when my

snapped, "Where the hell have you been? It's not the end of the

sounding lost. "Grace, did I say something wrong? Don't be upset with me. Where

your parents from you. I'm almost eighteen. I

you if you don't come back. Ashley, you're staying

was so

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