My parents forbade me from celebrating my 18th birthday because my sister didn’t feel special enough. So I moved out that night. A year later, their golden girl saw how successful I’d become, and her jealous meltdown shattered the family.

throwing away her family over a birthday party,” my mom said bitterly.

I looked at Bethany, and for just a second, I felt bad for her. She’d been conditioned to think the world revolved around her feelings, and that was going to hurt her eventually.

But that wasn’t my problem to fix.

“Bye, Beth,” I said.

Then I walked out.

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