Chapter 328

KESTER.

14 YEARS AGO.

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I lay on my bed, one arm limp at my side while my head rested on the other, with my eyes fixed on the

ceiling above me like it held the secrets to why my world had fallen apart.

From my headset, Billie Eilish sang what felt like the story of my life

What was I made for...

It was a quiet song, but it hit so loud in my chest.

I was probably too young to understand lyrics like those, but I understood hurt too deeply and too early. The song resonated with me so much that I couldn't stop listening to it.

And it made the ache in my chest louder sometimes. Like pressing on a bruise you couldn't help but touch.

But other times, it made me feel less alone and hopeful. Especially that last part.

... Think I forgot how to be happy

...Something I'm not, something I

can be

...Something I wait for

...Something I'm made for...

God, yeah. That part always cracked something inside me.

Because I had truly forgotten how to be happy and what it even meant. Didn't even know how it felt anymore.

Since my mum died - because she was dead

to me

a part of

me died. When Dad told me she was gone, I didn't cry.

I didn't scream or shout or break things like the kids in movies.

there and waited to feel

what I felt was betrayal. And it was the cold, heavy kind of betrayal

without looking back. She could have taken me with her, but she

the hands of the

what he was. And she still

kind of a mother does

a

to do... Lie still,

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days, I stayed in here and got lost in music that

place I didn't feel like I was constantly shrinking. But I didn't know how

a little to take a glance,

he started learning to use in the past weeks. It felt like he'd been practicing to use that tone in

I was listening to was really low,

entered my room, gently

crack I'd been

He tapped me again.

one side of the headset off my ear and turned my head just enough to face him. But I

He stood there awkwardly

wasn't sure if I

he said, "How are you

I almost laughed.

Son?

had

at him, blank-faced

what he

to wrap it in fake smiles and softer tones. He always

didn't answer. I didn't care what he wanted.

of my bed. The mattress dipped slightly under his weight, and I hated how close

to talk to you about something," he said, still maintaining that soft tone, as if I was

be

speak.

"Jorja's moving in tomorrow."

At least not

daughter, who'll become

seven. Sweet kid. I think you'll like her if you give her a

was normal. "Try to

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that... that

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