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12. Family Dynamics

Penulis: ThePurpleRune
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AYRA

I woke up to my phone screaming in my head. I checked the caller ID and saw my father's name flashing, and I groaned.

Ughh. What does he want now?

It was barely 8 a.m. and already my day was threatening to turn out bad.

I picked up the call and waited, but heard nothing—just the sound of his breathing, steady and annoyingly calm, like he had all the time in the world. He was always like that: silent until it served him to speak.

Then, finally he said “Come back home. Let’s talk, Ayra.”

Just like that. No hello, no “how are you,” not even a fake pleasantry to pretend he cared. Straight to the demand.

I took a deep breath. I really didn’t have time to argue with him. I needed a solution to my problem, and another one of our fights wouldn’t help—not when everything was crumbling faster than I could patch it.

“I have a lot on my plate. I can’t come running at your beck and call for frivolities. You’d know the reason if you cared even a little about me.”

“You're having problems becaus
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