She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Chapter 21

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Sebastian’s POV

I have never seen Scar so happy with her laughter reaching her eyes….when she left with her friends.

She never laughs with me, she just smiles at me- she used to smile at me, but not anymore. Not for months. But even before when she did, it was different from the laugh she had with her friends. Her smile at me was always timid and restrained, like a puppy scared of being hurt, but also desperately flatters people for food.

She wasn’t happy with me. I made sure of that.

I thought I was just “not loving” her. I didn’t. I don’t! And because of that, I never cared if I was hurting her. She forced my hand, and I used that to justify everything.

The past three days were really rough for me.

I couldn’t stop thinking about Scar’s accusation, of how horribly we have been treating her. I felt sick of myself every time I think of the phrase “blood vessel“. I kept searching in my memory for clues to justify my actions. Maybe she deserved it, maybe she brought that to herself, maybe things didn’t have to be that

way.

I couldn’t find any.

jealous of Ava, but she has never harmed Ava on purpose. Even the “paper cut accident” was just an accident. She wanted everyone’s attention, and we punished her for that, by giving her

used to be able to justify that, I forgot how. At first, we understood. She was the healthy one, so of course she was jealous of Ava when Ava was the fragile baby doll that required constant attention. After a while, we got tired of her jealousy, and we started

have in the first place. We just decided by ourselves that she should grow out of what

Now she did.

wants our

identical shirt, but today when I forced her to

longer

did was to stop paying her attention to me? Is this how she feels this whole time? Existing,

the space for us. I look at him rubbing his shoulder with a

to Scar?” I

furrows his eyebrows, having a hard

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was a question I didn’t know I would ever ask him

a good brother to Ava,” I try to explain, “so why do YOU hate Scar

me. But she never did anything to Gabriel, not that

She hates us!” Gabriel exclaims as

her that she was adopted! You know, not linked by

orphan hate the family that put a roof over her head…if she wasn’t

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