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I Stopped Turning Around Chapter 10
The next Thanksgiving, I didn't go home.Not because I was angry.A project simply hit a critical deadline.Mom asked three days in advance.[Are you coming home this year?]I answered, [Can't make it.]She replied almost immediately.[Okay. Don't buy a ticket. It's too much trouble for one weekend.]Half an hour later, Dad e-transferred me some money. The note said, [Buy yourself a good dinner.]Chloe was the most dramatic.She shipped an entire box of snacks across the country.A note sat on top.[Relax. I didn't hide bugs in anything.]Under it, she had added another line.[That sentence isn't a prank either. There are really no bugs.]I laughed for a long time.That evening, several coworkers who weren't traveling home decided to eat barbecue by the waterfront.Sophie held up a chicken wing."Your family isn't guilt-tripping you?"I thought about it."They used to."Not much anymore."She groaned."Lucky you."I had barely sat down when my manager messaged m
I Stopped Turning Around Chapter 9
Three months later, a project brought me back to Toronto.I didn't tell my family.On the day my meetings ended, Grant somehow found out I was in town. He was waiting outside my hotel.This time, he didn't block my path.He simply asked, "Can we talk for five minutes?"I checked the time."Sure."He was much calmer than the last time I saw him."Chloe deleted the group chat."Your parents stopped the pranks too."I nodded."Good."Grant smiled without humor."I used to think that if your family liked me, married life would be easier for you."My mom told me I had it backward."My first job was making sure you were okay."I said nothing.He took a small box from his coat.It wasn't a ring.Inside was the fountain pen he gave me before my first promotion interview years ago."You left it at my place."I took it."Thanks."Grant looked at me."I'm not trying to restart anything."I just wanted to return what belongs to you."For once, he didn't ask for another ch
I Stopped Turning Around Chapter 8
After my parents went home, Chloe's messages piled up in my requests folder for three straight days.The first said, [I'm sorry, okay?]The second said, [Are you seriously never talking to me again?]The third was the shortest: [I need to say something.]I didn't accept any of them.On the fourth day, Mom sent me a video.Chloe had recorded it herself.She was sitting in my old room with her so-called scorebook spread out in front of her.Dad's car accident.Grandma's fall.Mom dying.Page after page.She wasn't laughing."Leah."I watched the old videos today."She stopped for several seconds."They're kind of disgusting."My thumb froze over the screen.Chloe lowered her head."Not you."Me."She played an old clip.I was fifteen, still in my school uniform.Someone had called saying Dad was in a car accident.My face went white.I ran while crying so hard I didn't even notice my shoelace had come undone.Behind the camera, my whole family was laughing.Chl
I Stopped Turning Around Chapter 7
After Grant returned to Toronto, my parents couldn't stay away either.Three days later, they came to Vancouver without warning me.I walked downstairs after a meeting and found Mom sitting in the lobby with a box of butter tarts in her lap.Dad stood beside her looking uncomfortable.Mom teared up the moment she saw me."You've lost weight."I didn't respond to that."Why are you here?"Dad cleared his throat."Let's talk at your place.""I'm in company housing. I can't bring visitors up."It wasn't true.The company had given me a private one-bedroom apartment.I just didn't want them inside it.Dad's face stiffened.Eventually, we went to a coffee shop downstairs.As soon as we sat, Mom pushed the box of tarts toward me."Didn't you love these when you were little?"I looked at it."Chloe did."Mom's hand froze.The silence lasted two seconds.She slowly pulled the box back."Did she?"I must've mixed you up."I said nothing.Dad spoke first."We were wron
I Stopped Turning Around Chapter 6
It was almost eleven at night when I landed in Vancouver.The colleague who picked me up was Sophie Delaney, a woman with a short haircut.She took one of my suitcases and started walking."Hungry? There's a chowder place downstairs from your apartment that's still open."I answered on reflex."No, it's fine. Don't go to any trouble."Sophie looked back at me."Trouble? We're grabbing a bite."You're going to be working late with us starting tomorrow. You get one day of being polite. After that, cut it out."I blinked, then laughed."Okay."It was such an ordinary thing to say.Yet something inside me loosened.Nobody asked why I'd moved so far away.Nobody made a bet on how I'd react.Sophie handed me the menu without asking questions."Mushrooms? Yes or no?"And just so you know, I'm not picking them out for you."I went with the shrimp.When the chowder arrived, she ladled out a bowl for me and immediately went back to answering work messages.She wasn't going ou
I Stopped Turning Around Chapter 5
Fifteen minutes passed.The laughter at home slowly died.Chloe stared at her phone, still unconvinced."Okay. Leah's getting better at this."Fifteen minutes and she still hasn't turned around."Grant frowned and called again.The phone was off.Dad remained calm."She's probably on a plane. It's just a work trip."Then Mom remembered the suitcase."That thing she rolled out this morning looked pretty big."She went toward my room.When she opened the door, all four of them froze.Half the closet was empty.My passport, documents, and bank cards were gone.Even my company badge was missing from the desk.A card lay face down beside the lamp.Grant picked it up.It was the refund confirmation from our canceled engagement photo session, dated yesterday.His face drained of color.Chloe tried to laugh it off."She's just trying to scare us."Where would she even go?"Nobody answered.Grant opened the drawer where he kept a few things at my place.His spare key, o
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