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After I Died, My Family Lost Their Minds Chapter 11
From that day on, Mom wasn't entirely there.She carried my ashes with her wherever she went.She slept with the urn in her arms.At meals she set a bowl and a fork across the table from herself.One night she lifted a thick piece of braised pork and laid it carefully in the bowl in front of my ashes."Claire, Mom made this herself. Try it. I don't know whether you'll like it."My soul hung in the air above the table. I looked at the glistening piece of meat and murmured, "My stomach's always been bad. I can't eat anything that rich."Mom's body went still for a second.Then, as though she'd heard something, she picked the pork back out with her fork and dropped it in the trash.And then, weeping, she began nudging the plainest vegetable dishes on the table toward my ashes, a little at a time."All right. All right. No rich food. Your mother will change it..."Dad stood off to the side and watched his wife move around the house like a walking corpse, and covered his face in
After I Died, My Family Lost Their Minds Chapter 10
It occurred to me, watching from above, that I'd started to admire Tessa a little.She was vicious, but clear-eyed.And she understood me better than any of them.Her words left the whole family with nothing to say.Mom crawled to the gurney and pushed the hair back from my face with shaking hands.She looked at what the collapse had done to it, and the expression slowly faded from her face."Yes. All of it was my fault."Dad sat slumped on the floor with his face in his hands, weeping."When she said something was going to happen, I thought she was just talking..."I never wanted her to die. How did this happen?"Ryan's last excuse had been stripped away.Shame turned to rage. He roared, threw himself across the hall, knocked Tessa to the floor with one punch, sat on her, and started slapping her like a man out of his mind."It's you! It's you, you vicious little—"The two of them tangled together in the middle of the hospital corridor."And you aren't vicious? What you
After I Died, My Family Lost Their Minds Chapter 9
Tessa's face went crimson under his grip, her feet off the floor, kicking.She had never once imagined that the brother who adored her most would expose all of it in front of everyone."You... what are you talking about...""You knew?"Dad got to his feet, his voice trembling."What did you just say? Say it again. You knew about all of it?"Mom braced herself against the wall and stared at the gurney while the tears came down.Home was supposed to be the safest refuge in the world.She had promised. The sky could fall in and they would be the ones holding it up.Then why had I preferred sleeping in a ventilation duct, a planter box, or under a bed?"Everything Claire said was true."Mom turned to look at Tessa and bit her lip so hard it nearly bled.She wanted to cross the corridor and tear her apart.But her hand stopped halfway up — and she brought it down across her own face instead.Then a second crack.Dad's palm caught Tessa full across the face."How could you be
After I Died, My Family Lost Their Minds Chapter 8
My soul drifted into the air above them and watched the corridor below.My body was covered with a white sheet and wheeled toward the morgue.The surgeon's words went into Mom like a knife.She fainted and collapsed to the floor.Dad caught her in a panic and ended up sitting on the tile himself.He stared at his own hands. Then he started swinging his arms like a lunatic, slapping himself across the face over and over."I should have knocked on that door! Why didn't I knock on that door?"Ryan's legs gave out and he went down on his knees, his head buzzing."It's not possible. How could she be dead?"He rushed the gurney and yanked the sheet back.Underneath it was my face, drained of everything.He'd spent weeks telling me I wore a dead woman's face.Now that he was actually looking at one, he couldn't stop shaking."Dead? Just like that?"Into the dead silence came Tessa, tears on her cheeks, sniffling softly.She crouched down and reached out to help Dad and Ryan up
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"We can still save her."The doctor's words hit Mom like a shot of adrenaline, and everything she'd been holding together came apart.She let out a breath, sagged down beside the stretcher, and gasped for air."Save her. Please, I'm begging you, save her."They rushed me onto the helicopter and flew me to the hospital downtown.Outside the operating room, the air in the corridor was thick enough to choke on.The red light above the doors glared brightly.Ryan stood off to one side, face dark, the mud on his clothes still wet."Mom, you're being completely unfair. Tessa had a terrible shock tonight."Nobody's asked her a single question. You're all gathered here around Claire."He glanced at the doors, and the stubbornness hadn't gone out of his voice."I told you she couldn't die, didn't I? It's obviously an act."Who survives under that much stone with breath left in them? She found herself a safe pocket ahead of time, that's all. The whole thing's a performance to punish
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Ryan broke free from the bodyguards and ran to the stretcher.He grabbed a fistful of my clothes and shook me like a rag."Claire, get up! Open your eyes!"You're faking again, aren't you? I knew it — playing dead is your favorite thing in the world!"Your body's still warm. Get up. Right now."Behind him Tessa wiped her eyes and chimed in through her tears."Ryan's right. She's obviously faking. She's always been the best at finding somewhere to hide."And anyway, with all that noise, how could she not have run?"She must have padded something around herself first and made herself look like this on purpose, to frighten us into feeling guilty—"A sharp slap rang out and cut her off.It was Mom's hand.Not across Tessa's face. Across Ryan's.Mom steadied herself, swaying, her eyes bloodshot, and fixed them on her son.She pointed at the bloodied beacon still in my hand and screamed until her voice tore."She called for help! She kept pressing the emergency beacon for five
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