I should have never let you go. That’s true. XXNX She deflated, wrapping her arms around herself… “Why do you have to be so fucking perfect?”
I stepped forward, setting my hands on her shoulders, “I’m not perfect kiddo…”
She looked at me, sorrow in her eyes, “I don’t know what to say…”
I gave her a smile, “You don’t need to say anything. “Have a good day.”
I nodded in relief and ran for the front of the store. By the time she was sixteen he had knocked her up, and I guess that was all the excuse her parents needed to marry her off to him…
I never saw him be mean to her, never saw him abuse her, but I rarely saw him interact with her at all… He just sat in the front bedroom of the trailer, which he had converted into an office and played on
