~Lauren
My relationship with my mother was basically non-existent, she shipped me off to Spain for high school and didn't even bother to attend either of my graduations.
I could say her dying should be a pass but was it really? Whenever I reached out to her she found new ways to shut me down.
When I heard she was married I thought he was the reason she never paid any attention to me but after seeing him with another woman yesterday I am beginning to rethink that thought.
“Stepdad.” The word rolls off my tongue smoothly, he was nothing like I expected. When I thought of a stepfather, I thought of an old man with streaks of grey locks or who looked like the fathers of some of the girls at the dorm.
But from the looks of it my mother liked them young, Troy looks like he's in his mid-thir
