Therese's Story - Chapter 30: I'm Sorry
As told to the author. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Cait left, with her mom. Just like that. She left me. And I was alone, somewhere between Cait and Lucy and this big ugly secret that wasn't even my secret and so it shouldn't have been mine to keep. But it was, and that was so unfair. The world had ended, and Lucy wanted to know why, and I couldn't tell her. So I just stayed away. She called me all the time, and at first, I picked up when she did. She cried every time, an...