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After my divorce, I learned not to hand my heart to just anyone… not even the people who come with wedding rings or promises of forever. So, when I met Nolan, I didn’t fall fast. I let him earn us. Me and Ava, my daughter from my first marriage. Ava, who has my nose and my laugh and a fierce little heart that refuses to break even when the world tries. The best thing about Nolan? He never hesitated. He walked right into our lives like he belonged, like we were never missing anything. He loved Ava like she was his own. Still does. If she skins her knee, he’s the first with a band-aid. If she has a nightmare, he’s at her door before I am. To Nolan, she’s his kid. Period. To his mother, Darlene? Not so much. Darlene, picture pearls and pinched smiles, never said anything outright. She didn’t have to. It was in the way she’d buy two cupcakes instead of three. The way she’d pat Ava’s head like she was petting a neighbor’s dog. And the things she said? “Isn’t it strange? She doesn’t look anything like you, Willa. Does she look like her father?” Or my personal favorite. “Maybe it’s better you waited to have a real family, Nolan. Not… this.” I bit my tongue so many times, I’m surprised it didn’t scar. I kept the peace, for Nolan’s sake. For Ava’s. But inside, I was always watching her. Calculating. Darlene wasn’t a monster, not really, but she was the kind of woman who saw children like mine as placeholders. Still, I never expected her to actually do something. Not like this. A few months ago, Nolan surprised us all with a trip to the Canary Islands. I’m talking about a beachfront resort, all-inclusive, everything planned to the last detail. He’d just gotten a work bonus and wanted to celebrate. “Ava’s never been on a plane,” he said. “She should remember her first time as something absolutely magical, Willa. She deserves everything good in the world.” She was thrilled. We all were. Until life did what it does best… Nolan got called away to Europe a week before the trip. Business emergency. He was devastated. “You two go ahead,” Nolan said, brushing Ava’s hair behind her ear. “Mom and Jolene can help with the flight. I’ll join you if I can.” Jolene is Nolan’s little sister. She’s sweet when she wants to be and likes to think of herself as a singer… but the girl is tone-deaf if you ask me. Nolan looked gutted. Ava clung to his leg like a baby koala, her tiny fingers curled into his jeans. It took all of us ten minutes and two gummy bears to get her buckled into her booster seat. “I want Daddy to come with us…” she said, her lower lip jutting out. “I know, baby,” I said. “I want that too. But Daddy has to work for now. He might surprise us! So, we always have to be ready for him to show up, okay?” She smiled at me and nodded slowly. And that’s how I ended up in a rental car, the early morning sun slicing through the windshield, with Ava in the back humming her favorite song, her pink neck pillow around her shoulders, and her boarding pass clutched like treasure. “Daddy said I had to keep it safe,” she said when I asked her about it. Darlene was in the passenger seat, silent but smiling. Jolene sang along to the radio and scrolled endlessly in the back. Halfway to the airport, Darlene broke the silence. “Can you roll the windows down?” she asked. “It’s a bit stuffy here.” I cracked mine slightly. I preferred the AC but Darlene had issues with it and her skin. “Much better,” she sighed and leaned toward Ava. “Sweetheart, let me see your ticket for a second. I just want to double-check the gate.” Ava hesitated, then looked at me. I gave her a little nod. She handed it over. Darlene took it with a delicate, practiced grip. She examined it. She smiled at something only she seemed to see. Then, just like that, she let it slip. A flutter of paper. A gasp of air. And the ticket soared out the window, caught in the wind like a bird freed from a cage. “My ticket!” Ava screamed from the backseat. “Well… isn’t that just a cruel twist of fate?” Darlene said. And then she smiled at me. Like she’d won. I slammed on the brakes. Jolene gasped. “Look, I think fate just didn’t want the two of you to go,” Darlene continued. She said it like she was talking about the weather. No regret. No panic. Just calm, casual cruelty. I looked at her. Like I really looked at her. And I saw it. The satisfaction behind her eyes. That ticket didn’t slip out the window. It was sent out the window. I almost lost it. My fingers clenched the steering wheel hard enough to ache. But I didn’t scream. I didn’t cry. Instead, I breathed in, long and slow. “You know what?” I said, my voice sweet and calm. “Maybe you’re right. Fate has a funny way of working.” I glanced at Jolene from the rear-view mirror. She looked frozen, … (continue reading in the 1st comment)
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Like clockwork, every Sunday at 5 p.m., my stepson Josh came back from his mom’s place. And every single Sunday, he would step through our front door, kick off his shoes, and head straight to his room without a word. It was like someone flipped a switch on Josh’s personality with us, transforming him from our cheerful, chatty ten-year-old son into a brooding stranger. And what was worse? He never talked about what happened at his mom’s place. I always wanted to ask him about his mood, but I also didn’t want to push it. As much as Josh had accepted me as his stepmother, I didn’t know how much of a role I had in his life. “Do you think he’s okay, Patrick?” I asked my husband one evening as we were making dinner. Josh had just been dropped off, and he was in an exceptionally irritable mood, refusing to talk to both of us. “Honestly, I think he’s perfectly fine,” Patrick said, slicing through a handful of potatoes. “Linda does like to push him, though. I’m sure she gave him a mouthful about studying and school in general.” “Yeah, I get that,” I said. “But I do the same thing, and he’s fine with it. He may make a joke or say something silly, but his mood is exactly the same. So this is nonsense. But again, I know bio-mom has the trump card over step-mom. So, I’m not going to say anything.” “Liora,” Patrick sighed. “If you want to talk to him, just go for it. Just walk up to him and ask him whatever you want. But I’ll talk to him after dinner, too.” I nodded. That was exactly what I wanted. I just wanted Patrick to make sure that Josh was okay. Because it hadn’t always been like this. When Josh first came to live with Patrick and me because we were closer to the school he wanted to go to, he was like a bright light. He kept telling stories about his day, asking questions about everything, and he tried hard to get to know me, his new stepmother. We even spent hours just baking away in the kitchen while bonding. But recently, that boy seemed long gone. Now, we had to try really hard to get him out of the hole that he climbed into when he returned from visiting Linda. We’d cook his favorite meals, play games, and even have elaborate movie nights to try to cheer him up. But nothing worked. I hoped that Patrick’s conversation with him after dinner was going to make a difference. “It was fine, Dad,” he said when Patrick asked him about the weekend. “Mom was her usual self, I guess.” I stood in the kitchen, straining to hear their conversation outside while Patrick started a little fire for s’mores. “But then why are you so sad? Did something happen? Your mom is great, but I know that she’s a lot to deal with,” Patrick chuckled. “It’s draining being there, Dad,” Josh confessed. “But I know how important it is for me to keep spending weekends with Mom.” “It is important,” Patrick agreed. “But at the same time, if it’s becoming too much, we can always change the arrangement to every second week. Okay?” I could see Josh contemplating the idea, but then his face darkened. “I’m going to bed,” he said. “Good night!” Josh came storming into the kitchen through the door, and I thought he was going to run past me. But he stopped and hugged me tightly. “Good night, Liv,” he said, walking away to his bedroom. Now, I wanted to stop him and ask him to tell me more. But I didn’t want to try too much. I wanted to respect his privacy. I knew the complicated feelings that came with split families, but this? This was different. It wasn’t just the normal adjustment to living in two homes; something else was eating at my stepson, and in turn, it was tearing me apart not knowing what. Then last weekend, things took a turn I never expected. Patrick was out getting my long list of groceries, and I was sitting on the couch, waiting for Josh to come back from his mom’s place. Around 5 p.m., I heard the familiar rumble of his mom’s beat-up sedan pulling into our driveway.A few months ago, our neighborhood had undergone a phase of petty crime, with unruly teenagers helping themselves to whatever they wanted. Since then, Patrick had installed a new security system that was as fancy as they came. If there was too much activity on our porch, the feed would automatically show on our television, the door camera capturing everything going on. It was an easy way for us to see what was going on before we made any sudden movements in retaliation. “It’s going to make us feel safer, Liv,” Patrick said when he installed the system. “There’s also an app that we need to download on our phones; it will do the same thing as it does on the TV.” I had to admit, it was a pretty cool device. As I sipped my tea, waiting for Josh to open the door and come in, the feed suddenly changed from my cooking show to the live feed of what was happening on the porch. There they were, Linda and Josh, standing on the porch. “Here’s your cookies,” Linda said, handing Josh a container. “I’ll see you next week. And you know what you have to do…” (continue reading in the 1st comment)👇
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