“And you’re still my girl,” I told her. “That part is solid.”
It’s been a while now. Sometimes Lily and Emily talk. Sometimes months pass. It’s complicated, and it doesn’t fit into a clean story.
But one thing changed for good.
Lily doesn’t call herself “unwanted” anymore.
Now she knows she was wanted twice: by a scared teenager who couldn’t fight her parents, and by two people who heard about “the girl no one wants” and knew that was a lie.
