JADEI walked back into the office, my eyes scanning the room for the documents I had given an excuse for. I sank into my office chair and sighed.I grabbed my phone and stared at the notifications I had gotten.A couple from my school program, more from friends at school but none from my so-called family.I sat there and looked at the screen and thought about what family was supposed to feel like. I put the phone face down on the desk before the thought could go any further because once it started it didn't stop, I had things to do today.I couldn't afford to go down that road right now.But it came anyway.It always came when I wasn't looking, the memory of that house, the way they looked at you, the way you could be sitting at a table with people and still feel like you were completely alone in a room, the way nothing you did was ever quite right, nothing you said was ever quite enough and you spent years adjusting, shrinking and trying to find the version of yourself that would fi
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