Fathomless
“Makes me sick, even.
I need Anne, and only Anne. She’s the only one who can help me. But I know if I do this, she’ll think I’ve forgiven her. She’ll think that I’ve agreed that we’re stronger together, that it’s okay that they read me secretly in the night, creeping into my room like thieves.
It’s not.
But I want answers, I want to help Naida, I want to be brave, and so I need Anne.
“I have to ask you something,” I say to her a few mornings later, before I leave for Jude’s. Jane... hasn’t woken up yet—I figure I’ll be able to handle my anger at my sisters better if it’s only one of them. Anne is watching TV, and the annoying weather thing keeps scrolling across the bottom of the show, muting the audio to alert us of an incoming hurricane. They’re rarely bad here, but they’re still something the weathermen like to panic over. It takes Anne a moment to look up at me—a moment I think she draws out to irritate me.MoreLess
I need Anne, and only Anne. She’s the only one who can help me. But I know if I do this, she’ll think I’ve forgiven her. She’ll think that I’ve agreed that we’re stronger together, that it’s okay that they read me secretly in the night, creeping into my room like thieves.
It’s not.
But I want answers, I want to help Naida, I want to be brave, and so I need Anne.
“I have to ask you something,” I say to her a few mornings later, before I leave for Jude’s. Jane... hasn’t woken up yet—I figure I’ll be able to handle my anger at my sisters better if it’s only one of them. Anne is watching TV, and the annoying weather thing keeps scrolling across the bottom of the show, muting the audio to alert us of an incoming hurricane. They’re rarely bad here, but they’re still something the weathermen like to panic over. It takes Anne a moment to look up at me—a moment I think she draws out to irritate me.MoreLess
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