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I'll start with this: I'm sorry. The goal was never to end up here. I wanted to take care of you and protect you. That's why I did what I did. I needed to shut my head up. Then I needed distance. I needed all sorts of things that showed me that I guess I wasn't doing anything for you. I just did it for me.

Dr. White and I have been talking, and I think this is the best way to do it, sugarcoated or not. You need to know what happened before I left. Where I went, the times I came back? I wish I could tell you it was as simple as Mom, Dad, and I led on. I like the idea that I went to college. I really do.

I have to admit something. I didn't go to college. I didn't make it far from home at all. I got a whole lot of people hurt, instead, and they're not around anymore to fill in the gaps.

I've stalled long enough. Here goes nothing:

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