Chapter 15

My mom and Bryan fighting, my dad never replying to my texts and rarely seeing me, school getting harder with more work as we get older, and the pressure to stay as top achiever clings onto me. College is looming closer, and the fear that I won’t get accepted and that my mom will be disappointed eats inside me every day. The fear that if I do get accepted and move to a dorm, then Bryan and my Mom might not see me as much as they do now, which, in all honesty, isn’t that much for living under the same roof. The fear of being left alone even if Elisa attends the same college, we won’t be studying the same major, and I don’t have anyone else.

Dane avoids, ignores, and treats me like a disease he might contract if I get close, even though we should have grown together all these years by suffering the same heartbreak. Instead, he’s causing so much shit, ruining what little of a family I have, and living in a suffocating atmosphere. One day, he, too, will go up and leave to follow whateve