ALEXANDER
The worst days of your life always start off innocently enough. At first, they look like any other day, maybe even better, until they turn on you, ripping something out of your chest you’ll never get back. But this day—eighteen years ago, is one that’s forever engraved into my very being. It is the moment my life stopped belonging to me and became something else entirely.
When you’re young, they assume you know nothing. They tell you to run along, to play with your toys, to stay out of grown-up matters. But to be fair, when you’re that young, you are ignorant of a lot of things. And yet, ignorance, I’ve come to realize, is a gift. Blissful even. Because once you know the truth, once the veil is pulled away, you can never go back. I grew up thinking I had the perfect family. Tha
