I can imagine why he didn't show up to get me, but of course I couldn't say anything to Sian about it. I can't say anything to anyone. I braced myself before entering the house. I know mom would be expecting him to come back with me, and I was running out of excuses to give her each time he pulled one of these stunts. Pretty soon, she's going to figure out that something's going on; if she hasn't already. Sometimes I wonder; there's no way she can be that blind, it's obvious even to me, and I'm a novice at this relationship stuff. I feel so torn lately, the father who I loved and adored my whole life, has become a stranger. Ever since mom gave birth to twins and one of them was a stillborn son. It was subtle at first, the differences. First were the late nights when before he couldn't

