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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school gate, I saw them. It was like my

was my mom, wiping Ashley’s forehead, my dad carrying her bag, and my brother, who’d rushed over

could barely remember what they

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

was always there

they never looked back.

I instinctively checked my phone, only to find nothing. No calls, no

pang

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

up.

starving, so I hit my usual burger

call connected, he snapped, “Where the hell have you been? It’s not

sounding lost. “Grace, did I say something wrong? Don’t be

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

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brother chimed in, “We’re not going to miss you if you don’t come back.

was so

I got home, they were all in the living room,

me, gave it to Ashley. My mom started, “We thought you’d