It took me more than two weeks to work up to it, but yesterday I did what Mrs Goodall said I should.
When I came home from school, they were sitting on the couch, close together, on the only space that wasn’t covered with stuff. They were watching The Bold and the Beautiful. I climbed over the rubbish and found the remote, and then I turned the TV off.
The Bold and the Beautiful.‘Come on, Allie,’ Dad said. ‘We were watching that.’
‘I need to talk to you both.’
Right away they looked worried, and I almost decided not to go ahead with it. Then I imagined myself telling Mrs Goodall that I couldn’t do it. I didn’t want to tell her that.
There was nowhere to sit, so I stayed where I was. I told them that I’d been talking to the counsellor at school, and that she said I needed a clean space
