She Returned Home For Christmas Only To Discover Her Family Had Already Left Without Her

need the doctors to assess him formally.” She put her pen down. “Do you have somewhere safe to stay tonight?”

I almost laughed. Home was not safe. Not the way I had always thought it was.

Before I left the consultation room, she said, “When your parents come back, they may try to make this about you. They may say you overreacted. They may say your grandfather continue reading …