Brooke POV
"Bee, where have you been? I was starting to get worried." My mother's voice hit me the second I walked through the door. "I thought you slept over at Kate's. Until she called asking after you. We were all worried."
"I'm sorry, mum." I said, slipping past her into my room.
She followed, studying me the way only a mother can. Like she already knew the answer before she asked the question. "This isn't the outfit you left in. And I remember you saying it was a birthday gift from Nathan." She went quiet for a moment. "So you're coming from his place."
I sighed. There was no point lying to her. "You're not wrong, mum. I was busy making another mistake." The words tasted bitter on my tongue.
She didn't scold me. She just looked at me with that quiet pity I had grown used to seei
