Chapter 28
Mom let out a soft sigh, then lifted her hand and overal, her lace but a momen
“Emily, it’s Mom who’s sorry”
*Mom….can’t accept you.”
I stared at the trace of cream left at the bottom of the plane.
After a wittle, I shook my head and said. “You haven’t wrunget me Mum.”
I had heard people back in the Appalachian Bills say that are anime bought Mom, ther tied her up and that’s how sie ga pregnant with me.
Later, Mom, almost mad, the countless times u get a me
But Grandma and Dad were convinced that the baby in her wont was a boy, and tier watched over her far and nigh.
It wasn’t until Mom finally gave–birch to me that Grandma and my father’s great disappointment came
They said I had taken the boy’s place. As long as I diet, he would come
When they held my infant self over water inrenting or drown me the same Mom he had carried me and once vanet me deaf protected me.
She was the only person who loved me after I was burd.
Theher she had a line love for me before, or later no longer lover me
The people who had wronged me, who had hurt me, were never ber
I just thought after that. I would really have no Mem.
That piece of cake I should have made it last longer. Why couldn’t com myse
Mon stood up and said. “The housekeeper will be here soon. She will take care of you.”
Then she turned and left. Even the sound of the door closing was suc
I silently watched the cake on the coffee □cle.
It was a small cake. Even after two pieces were anten, more that halt was sillet
A thought crossed my mind, urbidden–Mom was probably seating room in her scoisach
She was going back to the Millers, to Erian and Chice, to share that enormous beautiful decorated cake
I was truly on my own now. A corner in the classroom where I sat alone, a dorm room where I livet alone after dass.
During the holidays, returning to an empty house.
Sometimes the housekeeper would be there, cooking a meal for me.
She never spoke to me, her expression always impassive. I sometimes are moderet it she were mura
Until one day, by chance, I overheard her talking on the phone in the kimber.
I realized then that she could speak. She simply, like everyone else, didn’t want to talk to me.
And so I lived this way, alone, finishing tour years of elementary school, skipping two grades in the process.
The face in my class changed. Those who used to bully me grew bored with in and eventually just ignored un…
Except after every exam, when the teacher announced the first–place award and called my ma..
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I almost forgot what my own name was. It was as it walls had sprung up on all sides of my lite
They enclosed me, gradually cutting me off from eve
By the time I jumped to tourth grade, even Ethan stopped sending anyone to bother me entirely.
On the rare occasions I saw him, he had grown quickly in height, and seemed to speak less than he had a few years ago,
He was in sixth grade, playing basketball on the playground with a group of boys.
The first oneto run over and bring him water was still Chloe.
As I walked past, my eyes accidentally met his.
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