My Mother Told Me to Get Out and Never Come Back, Then My Father Called Weeks Later Asking Why I Stopped Paying Their Mortgage

Dad called him still figuring things out. I had a different word for it but I only used it inside my own head, because in that house Ethan was the center of gravity and everything else bent around him.

By the Sunday the fight happened, I was exhausted in a way sleep could not fix. I had been up since dawn for an early shift and all I wanted was to continue reading …