Chapter 21Rey
Logically, I knew that Jack needed to leave. If he felt as bad as I thought he did here, he needed to go. It still hurt like nothing I’d ever felt. It only felt slightly less painful than losing my mom because the pain was different.
I realized I withdrew from everyone a little in the days after he hopped on the plane. I needed space to just…be. I needed to be able to just exist without putting on a brave face when I didn’t feel like being brave at all.
I helped with keeping everyone fed, even if it reminded me of him in surprising ways. One day I was dicing onions and my crying had very little to do with the chemical the damn thing produced and everything to do with how Jack had patiently shown me how to cut one to his standards in a way that kept my fingers safe from the
