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He would come, I knew he would. And he would make this all go away.
When morning came and kids started arriving, I waited in the bushes so no one would see me and watched the gate we normally walked through.
Be nothing.
Be nothing.
You’re invisible.
But when a voice I knew like my own sounded, it came from the opposite direction. From where the cars were dropping off kids.
I turned to look, confused, because Daddy would’ve already been at work. And he never drove us.
And suddenly I wasn’t invisible.
Suddenly I wasn’t nothing.
Because there was Jentry.
My Jentry.
My twin brother.
And he was getting out of a car with Declan—a rich boy from our class—and wearing nicer clothes than we’d ever had. He had a new backpack and shoes. Not a roughed-up spot in sight.
And he was smiling. Like there was nothing bad in the world at all.
Like Daddy didn’t get angry and beat us, and Momma didn’t have scary friends.
Like he hadn’t lost me the way I’d lost him.
For just a second, his smile slipped and he turned and looked, as if he could feel me watching him. And for just a second, his eyes stopped on me. And then he was smiling again and talking with Declan as he walked away.
I’d never felt more invisible.
I’d never felt more like nothing.
I’d never been more hurt by anyone.
Tears rolled down my cheeks, and Momma’s words snapped through my mind.
“Weak. So weak, Jess.”
“He’ll ruin you.”
“He destroys everything he touches. Just like his daddy.”
“They’re selfish. Evil. They would’ve thrown us away and never looked back.”
I felt weak.
I felt ruined.
I felt destroyed.
I felt lost.
And the only person who could’ve made it go away didn’t care anymore.
