She wanted to see me. To curse at me again, the way she had last time?I was slow. But I could grow too.After a long moment, I spoke again."Never mind."I said softly, "I'm not her sister anymore.""I don't want to see her. Let her do as she likes."After I hung up, a weight lifted off me.No one mentioned Julian to me again, as if the man had never existed.I practically lived in the lab. My students took to calling me, fondly, the mad scientist.Another month went by, and the prison officer brought me a diary.She said Chloe had demanded it. That if I wasn't allowed to read it, she'd kill herself.I nodded, tucked the diary into a storage box, and had no intention of opening it.Until one night, ten days on, when I couldn't sleep.For no reason at all, I thought of that diary.It turned out Chloe had never, from childhood, truly thought of me as her sister.She'd hated me all along, envied me all along.After I started dating Julian, she kept hearing from me about how good he was t
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