Overlooking the room full of people from high society, made me nauseous. Their plastic faces and fake attitudes were enough to make me want to lock myself in my bedroom and never leave the house again.
This was the last thing I wanted to be doing on a Friday night, but I had no other choice.
“Good evening everyone.” I smiled as pleasantly as possible, feeling my skin crawl from all of these eyes on me. “Tonight we give back to a wonderful cause that has touched our family personally.”
“Not a lot of you know this, but our mother died from cancer.” I spoke out, trying to keep my voice steady as I re-live my mother’s last days in my mind. “She was an angel and didn’t deserve to lose her life to cancer.”
My brother rested his hand on my shoulder, silently giving me his strength.
“So,
