I Was Lifting Our Heavy Mattress to Search for an Earring I Had Dropped Behind the Bedframe – I Expected to Find Some Dust, but What Was Carefully Taped Beneath His Side of the Mattress Made Me Slowly Sit Down on the Uncovered Floor

to Sunday.

Also, whenever I asked about his father, whom he never spoke of, he’d give me a soft, “Another time, love.”

Another time never came.

There were the monthly work trips, too.

I’d let it all slide because Ethan was my best friend.

Because I grew up in a house where my own father cheated with a woman none of us knew existed. And I promised myself continue reading …