My father pushed my nearly nude body down onto the mattress and ripped off my knee socks, the ones Kathy had claimed she loved more than anything, but were now part of a reminder that this outfit and everything in this entire house, sucked. A nightmare come true, that I would never forget.
The next morning, I stole the phone off of the receiver and bounced back into my bedroom where I called our mother and told her in a whisper that there was an emergency and she had to come get me. The three-hour drive felt like an entire day while I heard my father clicking away on his computer, wondering if he had become suspicious and noticed that the phone had been taken off the stand. When she arrived, she didn’t even bother to knock – she ran back the hall into the bedroom and shrieked as she held me and pulled me out of the house, cooing, “Oh, Kathy, Kathy, why didn’t you say anything sooner? Why didn’t you tell me?”
As the tears streamed down my face and bled into the concealer, I could feel the shock run into my mother’s beating heart through the look on her face and she pulled Kathy and I close, finally realizing that the most beautiful thing in the world was that a mix-up might have saved my sister’s life even if it did ultimately ruin my own.
There are some things that parents learn along the way. How to communicate, how to grow close to their children when they thought that all hope was lost in other things, as if their lives had been forever disrupted by something as pitiful as a divorce. Now when I look in my sister’s eyes I realize that time can be made up and accounted for, and that things really can get better. Sometimes a family falling apart, in the long run, can really lead to other things coming together.
And sometimes, you just don’t know how lucky you are.
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