Chapter 18 - DeceptionLindee made the slit in the plastic at the base of the blister pack of my birth control with the exact knife I found in my father's junk drawer. She had a very steady hand. A good thing since I didn't trust myself to do this.
“Aspirin,” she said as she settled one birth control pill down next to several others on a blank piece of typing paper. I used cellophane tape to hold each contraception in place. I'd already wrote the days down on the paper, that way I wouldn't get confused when I went to take them each day.
I shook out another low-dose aspirin and set it down in the space next to where she worked on my dresser. I could think of no safer place to do this than in my bedroom, with doors locked so no one could barge in. We kept our voices at a whisper.
“I hope t
