My Family Turned Their Backs On Me On My Birthday Until I Took Everything Back

time, slower. Underneath her message, a small notification. Megan liked this message. A thumbs-up icon, one tap, placed precisely beneath the sentence telling me to disappear.

I sat on the edge of my bed with the phone in both hands and did not cry, did not throw anything. I felt a strange numbness, like someone had pulled a plug somewhere in my chest continue reading …