Chapter Twenty-Eight
“Yes father, I know that you will be in next week for my birthday dinner, I haven’t forgotten”, I say for the second time since my father called me.
“Are you okay? You sound different!” My father says.
“I’m fine, why wouldn’t I be fine?” I ask.
“Are they kind to you?” He asks.
“Yes, they are very lovely”, I say.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes! What is this? I am not different”, I say. “And I am perfectly okay”.
“You sure don’t sound like yourself darling”, my father insists.
He may be right about that. I’m lying to him, I have changed and I am different, but I don’t want him to know that, he wouldn’t like the way I have changed. Next week will be my eighteenth birthday, and my family will be here for my birthday dinner. I have been dreading this dinner ever since I rea
