Chapter 174

I wasn't able to attend the father daughter dances that the other girls went to. My dad wasn't around to scare off my male school friends who he thought might be interested in me. I didn't learn how to drive with my dad. He couldn't help me with mum. He couldn't save me from a lot of what happened. A lot would be different if he never left.
"I think so. I was really close to my dad. And when he left it sort of messed me up inside. I didn't want to trust people and let them in. I didn't want to be myself around anyone, because they might leave like he did. He walked away so easily, like we were nothing. It scares me that it could happen again one day"
"I can't help but see the parallels here" I give her a somewhat confused look before she presses on. "Your father left you and your mother out of nowhere, without an explanation. And you've just ended a relationship that you cared very deeply about in a similar way"