I Don’t Need Your Fake Love by Melandia

Chapter 36

Chapter 36

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.

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

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

remember what

wished, just for a second, that they’d turn around and

always there

they never

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

pang of

o’clock in the evening, but

starving, so I hit my usual burger joint. That

hell have you been? It’s not the end of

the phone, sounding lost. “Grace, did I say something wrong?

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

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you if you don’t come back. Ashley,

call was so loud.

burger when 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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