"Yeah."

"Is it my mother's death that's made you start hating me?" Dorothy could only think of that as an explanation.

He hated himself.

Otherwise, why would he be so heartless?

"...Don't bring that up.

Dorothy pursed her lips. At this point, she didn't want to argue with Everett. It was too exhausting, and because there had been love.

The only real relationship she had, she didn't want it to end in embarrassment for both of them.

"Everett, I'm begging you, okay?"

Dorothy turned away, refusing to look at him.

Because she didn't want to cry in front of Everett.

She didn't want anyone to see her at her weakest.

take the kids and leave. I promise I won't contact you again,

"Dorothy..."

the deaths of both our mothers! Indeed,

to take things lightly. She had been thinking about this for

she and Everett just couldn't work

never fully be erased! If she had been someone of note, someone whose background matched that of the Lopez family, then... there wouldn't have

it was

understood this early on, it felt like a cruel

let her live a

that she had awoken from the dream, not clinging to it was the only way

about me if you take the kids

couldn't maintain its

he still trembled

was afraid,

Dorothy left,

truly give up on him, and even if she later learned the

had taken him over a decade of effort to finally make her believe

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