Straight Until Him
she said softly, “don’t let silence scare you. You have a voice. Use it.”
Something in me cracked then. For once, I didn’t feel like I was fighting this house alone.
Of course, Micah had to ruin the moment. He leaned close to me, whispering, “See? Even your mom ships us.”
I kicked him again. Harder this time. He yelped, the sound echoing in the solemn dining room, and even my father’s newspaper twitched like he was tempted to look up.
But he didn’t. He stayed buried in his paper, his silence like stone.