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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.

at the school gate, I saw them. It was like my

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

remember what they

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

there behind

they never looked back.

car. I instinctively checked my phone, only to find nothing.

pang of

the evening, but they

burger

hell have you been? It’s not the end of the world because of a stupid conference!”

I

say something wrong? Don’t be upset with me. Where are

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

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not going to miss you if you don’t come back. Ashley, you’re staying put, got it?”

was so

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

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