♧◇DAISY◇♧I had always hated family dinners. The second I stepped into that dining room, my whole body switched into fight or flight like some scared little animal. My dad would grunt about politics, my mom would pick at everything I did, and Harriet; perfect, golden Harriet, didn't even have to try. She just sat there, smiling softly, and somehow that was enough to earn their warmth, their pride and their praise. I sat at the same table, in the same house, but it always felt like I was the only one they couldn’t quite love.I used to force myself to show up anyway, because missing one meant more questions, more lectures and more of Mom’s disappointed sighs. But ever since Liam started coming around, I stopped hating the dinners quite so much. I started living for them.I’d sit across the table, smile like a good girl, and just watch him eat. Watch the way his jaw moved, the way his shirt stretched over his shoulders, the way he leaned in close to Harriet and whispered something that
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