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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.

I saw them.

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the spot.

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 tasted like.

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

was always there behind

they never

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

felt a pang of loss.

the evening, but they

usual burger joint. That

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

I

say something wrong? Don’t be upset with

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

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

call was so

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

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