My Parents Doubled My Rent So My Unemployed Sister Could Move In, So I Moved Out and Took Everything

to push me away. “Cyclops has a gun. You can’t be here. Please go.”

“I’m not leaving without you,” I said, and I meant it with a certainty so deep it felt like a vow written into my blood.

I wrapped my jacket around his shivering body. My fingers traced the chain, the rope, the swollen ankle. Rage rose so fast it made me dizzy.

This wasn’t random violence.continue reading …