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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my mom, wiping Ashley’s forehead, my dad carrying her bag, and

I could barely remember

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

there behind

they never looked

shiny new car. I instinctively checked my phone, only to find nothing. No

pang of

waited until seven o’clock in the

burger joint. That

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

took the phone, sounding lost. “Grace, did I say something wrong? Don’t be upset with me. Where are you?”

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

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“We’re not going to miss you if

call was so loud.

I hung up, telling them I’d be right back. When I got home, they

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