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He doesn’t answer right away, waits until I raise my eyes to his. “A few months.”
“Right after Quarantine ended.” It’s not a question. It’s a statement of fact. My father had been dead only days at that point and she’d packed up our whole life and moved it here. I’m surprised she hadn’t done the same to me. That she hadn’t just put me in a box labeled Sabine’s room and shipped me here. “I didn’t know.”
I guess that explains why my plants are still alive, though not necessarily healthy. Someone has been watering them, infrequently sure, but enough to keep them alive.
My fingers go to the bracelets on my wrists, running over the beads there. God, I’m so uncomfortable here. So freaking out of place, and my mom she just wants to wedge me into this space that feels too tight.
I swallow and turn from Finn, heading toward my bedroom, or rather the bedroom that has in mine while I’m here.
“Hey, jelly?”
I pause at the doorway, but don’t look at him. “Welcome home.”
