Broken Vows by Tessa Montgomery

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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.

After the conference, I packed it up and headed home, the same as always.

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them. It was like my feet were glued to

wiping Ashley’s forehead, my dad carrying her bag, and my brother, who’d rushed over from college, offering her chocolates.

could barely remember

for a second, that they’d turn around and see me, their other daughter.

there

never looked

I instinctively checked my phone, only to find nothing.

a pang of loss.

o’clock in the evening, but they didn’t show

up.

burger joint. That was

he snapped, “Where the hell have you been? It’s not the end of the world because

the phone, sounding lost. “Grace, did I say something wrong? Don’t be upset with me.

sorry, Grace. I didn’t mean to take your parents from you. I’m almost eighteen.

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not going to miss you if

was

telling them I’d be right back. When I got home, they were all in the living room, gunning for me

sliver of cake left. My brother, right in front of me,