I Left Before Sunrise and Let the Truth Wake Them Up

specifically left for my college education.

I never confronted them.

Not immediately.

I made copies instead.

Every document.

Every statement.

Every signature.

Every transfer.

I stored everything somewhere they couldn’t touch.

Back at the dinner table, I folded the university form once.

Then again.

Mom sighed.

“Ava… don’t make this more difficult than it has to continue reading …