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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.

school gate, I saw them. It was

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the

her bag, and my brother, who’d

I could barely remember what they

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

there

never looked

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

felt a pang of

until seven o’clock in the evening,

burger joint. That

you been? It’s not the end

I

something wrong?

voice came through all watery. “I’m sorry, Grace. I didn’t mean to take your parents from you.

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going to miss you if you don’t come back. Ashley, you’re

call was

back. When I got home, they were all

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