When I Told My Parents I Lost Everything My Phone Started Exploding With Messages

never seemed to notice because they were too busy talking.

“She thought you’d build it,” Emma said when I finished.

“I think she thought whoever ended up here would build it,” I said. “She just assumed it would probably be me.”

Emma looked out the window. The orchard was bare-limbed and patient in the cold, the kind of beautiful that belongs entirely continue reading …