"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.

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

"Dorothy..."

too much baggage, too deeply entangled, involving the deaths of both our mothers! Indeed, being together we

one to take things lightly. She had been

and Everett just

be erased! If she had been someone of note, someone whose background matched that of the Lopez

was because she wasn't good enough

early on, it felt

let her live a dream, a

clinging to it was the only

about me if you take the

voice couldn't maintain its

he tried, he still trembled slightly,

was afraid,

Dorothy left, he'd

up on him, and even if she later learned the whole truth, she wouldn't come back to him, like

she wasn't one to easily trust. It had taken him over a

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