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I was barely able to sleep last night. I managed to shut my eyes around four but I was up by six. I couldn’t think, couldn’t focus because I had no idea what today was going to hold. For the first time in my life, I was confused and I didn’t know what to do. For the first time in my life, I had been bested.

There was a knock on my door and I looked up as grandpa walked in. “Your dad sent a text, he said you don’t have to come in for work today.”

I snorted. “Is that his way of trying to apologize? Or is that his way of trying to keep me away.”

“Hayley-”

“It doesn’t matter anyway, it gives me the chance to look for jobs.”

“Hayley, I know how pissed off you are but today is a new day and I hoped you would have slept it off. I don’t like that you and your father are fighting this much. He is just trying to look after you.”

“I don’t like his delivery,” I shrugged. “He has no right to treat me like an infant.”

“And I agree with that-”

He paused mid-sentence when we heard the doorbell. We lo