Daniel was supremely grateful to have been After tonight, there was no more room in her life for honesty. After tonight, she couldn’t be a kid anymore. In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb instead, you walked through the rubble and told yourself that it wasn’t nearly as bad as it looked. They were both lying, and Trixie thought maybe that was the way it would be, now. Laura folded her arms around Trixie so tight that there was no room for doubt between them. Because if it was her mothers mistake, then it couldn’t be hers. Because if Trixie was angry, there was no room left for being scared. Because a mother was supposed to protect her child. Maybe none of this had been her mother’s fault, but Trixie pretended it was. Maybe the worst hurt she would have had to nurse was another razor stripe, a self-inflicted wound. Maybe she would have spent the night in her own bed. Maybe then Trixie wouldn’t have chanced lying about going to Zephyr’s maybe she never would have had the opportunity to steal the sheer blouse. I’m so sorry.” Trixie wasn’t sure if her mother was apologizing, or just acknowledging her own errors. “I should have been home,” her mother said.
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