“Promise you won’t get mad?” she would ask.
“I promise to listen.”
That was enough. The whole story would tumble out.
Lily had never been good at keeping secrets from me.
So I told myself she was tired. Nothing more.
But the girl who returned was nothing like the one I had sent away.
“Can you please just go?”
Lily usually rushed into my arms after spending even one night from home. That evening, she walked past me without a hug, dragged her suitcase upstairs, and locked her bedroom door for the first time in years.
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“What happened?” I asked through the door.
“Nothing. Can you please just go?”
Over the following week, she barely ate. She left her phone facedown but flinched whenever it buzzed. If a car slowed outside, she hurried to the window and watched until it disappeared.
Whenever I mentioned Los Angeles, she became furious.
