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“I’m good… Yes, we’re all here. Very sneaky of you arranging this… Both Kendall and Amber look fine… I look fine, too… We’ll try…”
“Put it on speaker,” I say.
Dixie waves off my request. No doubt to annoy me. Whatever. I’ll text my aunt later.
“I promise we won’t kill one another… And be nice to one another… And yes I’ll tell them.” She pauses. “Okay, sounds good… Talk to you soon. We love you, too.”
That’s the one solid thing my sisters and I do have in common. We wholeheartedly love our aunt. She’s our dad’s younger, bighearted sister. The two of them aren’t super close, but for as long as I can remember she’s taken a fierce interest in us girls, maybe because she and Uncle Jack don’t have kids of their own.
“What did she say?” I ask.
“She said she’s sorry for luring us here under the pretense that we’d each have the house to ourselves, but that she thinks it’s past time we get over our shit and act like sisters rather than strangers.”
“She did not say shit,” Amber says.
Dixie rolls her eyes. “That’s the gist.”
“Think we can do it?” I ask. Maybe, just maybe, my sisters can help me move forward for good. Brit’s tried. My mom. My therapist. Dr. Sutton says the only person holding me back is me. But love, guilt, and loyalty form a powerful glue, which is why my heart’s still stuck to someone who can’t give his back.
