LEIGH
"Ava?" I heard the strident sound somewhere in my head.
Squeezing my eyes, for the alarm had agitatedly roughed up my head, and I had woken up disheveled and in confusion.
"What are you doing here?" Susan and dad asked simultaneously. There was a certain emotion that struck their facial expression. It was an utter disappointment. It was the first time dad looked at me that way. I was disconcerted because I knew what was all going around their heads. That's when it hit me, I didn't want to be looked at that way. Not by my father, who believed me to be remarkable in every trait that he had coached me.
"I..." the words ceased in my throat.
They walked in on me while I was asleep, shirtless on Ava's bed. Susan's eyes were trying so hard to disagree with this reality.
"Leigh,
