MY UNDOING
“Oh, hush. She’ll be right back down. Go get ready, Macey.”
“Mom,” I started, eyes wide.
“No excuses,” she said with that mom smile that meant resistance was futile. “Thirty minutes. Go!”
“Fine,” I muttered, dragging myself up the stairs like a prisoner being escorted to her fate.
Spoiler: thirty minutes turned into fifty-seven.
I tore through my suitcase, my closet, my sanity—trying to find something that said ‘I’m normal and emotionally stable,’ but not ‘I’m still hung up on a man I shouldn’t be thinking about.’ Eventually, I settled on a simple sundress and my favorite small gold hoops. My mom always said my eyes looked softer when I wore gold.
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