family reunions

CHARLOTTE

For a moment, I was in an alternate version of the world I lived in.

In that world, my mother didn’t die, my father wasn’t abusive, I didn’t have to attend Lupin prep on a scholarship, and the triplets didn’t hate me.

No.

They didn’t exist.

For that moment, I was in that world, and everything was fine…

Then the slightest glimmers of sunlight fluttered through my eyelids, and I was wrenched back into reality in the cruelest of ways.

I frowned a little and stretched in my seat, my back hurt from the position I’d been curled up in all night, but I felt a hell of a lot better than I did last night.

I took stock of my surroundings, I was still in Vance’s car and dressed in the same clothes as I was last night, we were in an empty parking lot I couldn’t recognize, and judging from the slight glimmers of sunlight, it was still very early in the day.

I turned towards the driver's seat and found Vance awake and watching me cautiously, like he was worried I’d break down crying ag