“You haven’t been yourself for ages. Not since the whole Christine thing.”
“What do I have to do to convince you? I’m holding down a job. I’m doing my physio to get my hip straight and going to a flipping grief counseling group to get my mind straight. I think I’m doing pretty well, okay?” The whole table was now listening to me. “In fact—here’s the thing. Oh, yes. Lily was there. She saw me fall. It turns out she was the one who called the ambulance.”
Every member of my family looked at me. “You see, it’s true. She saw me fall. I didn’t jump. Lily, I was just telling my sister. You were there when I fell, weren’t you? See? I told you all I heard a girl’s voice. I wasn’t going mad. She actually saw the whole thing. I slipped, right?”
Lily looked up from her plate, still chewing. She had
