“Fine! I’ll act like I don’t have a daughter!”
She pointed at the door.
“Leave!”
Brittany gave Mom a look and left with Jake.
Mom fell onto the couch.
Ashley held her.
“You okay, Mom?”
“She messed up bad!”
Ashley said, “It’s okay. You have me and
Sarah !!
Г
“Good girl.”
Brittany was going to screw up her life.
14
I saw Brittany with her belly.
Ashley glared.
“What do you want now?”
She looked at Ashley.
“Why are you here?! Why do you have to
make my life bad?! Why didn’t you just stay
where you were?!”
Ashley said,
Г
“Your mom switched us. What I had for a
decade should have been mine.”
I nodded.
Don’t let anyone make you think that you’re
wrong. You do you.
Brittany looked messed up, and took
something from her bag.
She threw it.
I held Ashley and it hit my back.
It burned.
Brittany got scared.
“I wanted to hit Ashley, I didn’t mean to…”
She ran off.
Ashley said,
“Sarah!”
She called 911.
“Hang on, I called 911.”
I smiled.
“It’s not your fault.”
Then I passed out.
15
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I was face–down on a hospital bed.
My back was on fire.
Ashley said,
“Mom! She’s awake! Get water!”
She put the straw in my nose.
“Sorry, let me change that.”
Mom was teary–eyed.
“I called the cops. We’re just waiting for you
to solve it.”
