CHAPTER 13: TRUST MEI LAY ON MY BED, staring at the pictures of him in his dress uniform, and in his astronaut suit. Then I glanced through the ones of us. My heart twisted painfully and the tears began to fall. I missed him so much. But he didn’t want to be with me anymore. It seemed like every time we’d get okay, then someone would come along with their lies and screw everything up for us. And he believed everything they said, even if I didn’t. And all because they painted him as a crazy, violent monster, he thought that’s what he was.
Suddenly, anger flowed through me. He wanted nothing more to do with me? Then I didn’t want him around. Any part of him. I stood and found an empty box and began tossing the pictures and the stuffed tiger along with all the other things that he’d given
