"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.

and leave. I promise I won't contact you

"Dorothy..."

of both our mothers! Indeed, being together we only hurt each other. So, let's not be together. It's a way

one to take things lightly. She had been thinking

Everett just couldn't

something that could never fully be erased! If she had been someone of note, someone whose background matched that of the Lopez family, then...

it, it was because she wasn't good enough for

on, it felt like a

a dream,

awoken from the dream, not clinging to it was

me if you take the

voice couldn't maintain its

tried, he still

was afraid, terrified

that once Dorothy left, he'd never find

even if she later learned the whole truth,

had taken him over a decade of

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