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pulled them back as she stood straighter.
    “If it’s not true then why aren’t you and Dad coming with me?”
    Jessica and James glanced at each other before looking back at Sophie. Her dad cleared his throat. “Your mom is going to spend some time with Aunt Sarah. She’s going to need help with the twins since Uncle Bill will be away on business over Christmas.”
    “Well why doesn’t she come here?” Sophie asked.
    “It’s a lot of work traveling with two babies. It’s much easier if your mom goes to her.”
    “So why aren’t you going? You said she needed the help, surely you can help.”
    “I want to give your mom and your aunt time to catch up.”
    “So what are you going to do over the holidays?”
    “I’ll stay here.”
    “You’ll stay here?” Sophie eyed her dad and he shrugged.
    “Yes, I’ll stay here.”
    A few moments of silence passed as Sophie glanced from her mom to her dad, before she suddenly started laughing.
    “What’s funny?” The note of irritation was hard to miss in Jessica’s voice.
    “You guys. Both of you are just hilarious.” Sophie’s laugh faded and her tone became suddenly bitter. “Do you really think I’m buying this crap? You guys can’t stand each other. You argue all the time and you don’t know how to deal with each other so you’re just bailing. Same thing with me. You see me as a problem you don’t know how to solve so you’re just dumping me somewhere far away to be somebody else’s problem. You think I’m treating things like a joke but this whole situation is a joke!” Her voice had become increasingly louder and the last words were shouted at her parents.
    “Sophie, don’t shout. It’s not helping –”
    “No, James. She’s right.” Her dad’s words were cut off by her mom, who stared at Sophie with a calm bitterness that echoed Sophie’s own. “Let’s just state things as they are. Your father and I aren’t getting along. We haven’t been getting along for months. For your part, you’re like a stranger to us. You’re our daughter but you’re not you. You always got good grades, Sophie, and now you’re failing. How many phone calls have we received from your school office informing us you’ve skipped classes? Where do you go? Are you shoplifting? Are you getting high? Are you drinking? You refuse to answer our questions and you hardly talk to us at all nowadays unless it’s to scream at us. This can’t go on.” Jessica narrowed her eyes resolutely. “It won’t go on, Sophie. Your father and I are not going to stand by and see you ruin your last few months of high school. You need to think about your future but if you can’t do that right now, then we’ll do it for you.”
    “I want to stay here. I’ll stay out your way,” Sophie directed her words at her dad. “You won’t have to see me at all.”
    “That’s the problem, Soph,” James sighed. “We never see you. We don’t know where you go. We don’t know how many times you’ve lied to us when you said you were spending the night at Abby’s house and instead went off who knows where. We’re worried about you, Soph. You’re young. I know when you’re eighteen you don’t think you’re young. You think you’re all grown up, but you’re not. You think you know so much about the world and you can handle yourself but I can tell you from experience that it’s a really big world out there, Soph, with a lot of different people. Sometimes the people and situations you experience are great but at other times they’re not, and the way you’ve been carrying on the past few months has your mom and I increasingly worried that you’re going to run into a situation or person or people that you can’t deal with yourself. We’re not trying to scare you; we’re trying to open your eyes and let you see how we view things because the truth is that we’re scared something will happen to you and we would never forgive ourselves if it did.”
    James paused as he