Chapter 36

Rena

"Rena, it's not that I don't resent dad for abandoning us. For a long time, I resented him very much for taking away the best part of your life and for making you responsible for all three of us when it should have been him taking care of us, but now I want to understand him. Why did he leave? Where did it all go wrong? What could have gotten over him? Why didn't he consider us for once? I want to meet him and ask him in person why he suddenly became a different man from one day to the next. This is why I need to see him."

"Don't get me wrong though, Rena, I'm not trying to make excuses for him to excuse his decision to abandon us, but rather than pretending like he no longer exists and telling myself every day that I hate him and never want to see him ever again, I'd rather meet with him, even if it's just once, and ask him why he left. That is the reason I need to meet dad," she explains, and I almost could no