When Tom, my stepfather, showed me the bathroom attached to my room with its own Jacuzzi tub, he said, Bet you feel like Cinderella, because he’s an idiot.
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The worst thing about the new house is that there’s no way to sneak into my room.
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“Monica,” my mother calls. “We’re eating dinner.”
In other words, Don’t you try to disappear upstairs.
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They all smile at me: Jen, Juliana, Susan, Colleen, and Bethany.
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know is that my sister wouldn’t have killed herself. And if she did, why didn’t she leave a note explaining why?
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Jen thought of her friends slipping away from her and how it felt like she was hurtling toward the edge of something they couldn’t be pulled back from.
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when the rest of the table had resumed conversation, laughing awkwardly, Jen saw it.
The way Ethan folded the fingers on one of his hands into the shape of a gun.
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I exhale a little. I don’t know why, but Ginny’s message buoys me and carries me all the way to lunch.
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I’ll find a way to make it right.
After I have a few words with Ethan McCready.
girl.
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When Ethan finally speaks, his voice is monotone. “I wasn’t in the woods at all. I was leaving your house.”