“No.”
“We shouldn’t.”
Noah nodded.
“Good.”
Then he walked into the kitchen and asked Mrs. Evelyn Harper if being eighteen meant he could have two desserts now.
She told him adulthood still did not work that way.
I listened to them laugh.
And for the first time in eighteen years—
Marissa’s name could exist inside our home without anger following it.
Not because what she did was right.
Not because the lost years no longer mattered.
But because the truth was finally allowed to be complicated.
Marissa loved us.
Marissa hurt us.
We loved her.
We were angry with her.
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