“Erina Leila Castelo Lee, you’re really not funny right now.” If not for my mother’s extremely serious voice, I would’ve laughed because of how she used my father’s last name to address me. That’s how much she can’t believe the words that came out of my mouth, huh? Well, I can’t exactly blame her because she knew how much pain I had to go through because of Silas. Oh, scratch that, because of leaving Silas. I literally had to go through hell just by trying to forget about him, and our memories together. I even tried to hide it from my family especially to my mom, but I guess because of her mother’s instinct, she knew exactly how I felt that time. What I love about my family is the fact that they didn’t treat me like I’m any different from them. My fear before was that since I’

