“Hey, no fair, it’s my birthday and I don’t even get a piece,” I say

I want to tell her everything, but also I just can’t. And suddenly I’m angry; why am I so far away? Why does it have to be this way? Why, why, why?

Now she’s annoyed at me. I hadn’t shown her I cared in the slightest, and I don’t know how to go back on what’s been

Maybe there’s something to be said for the friends thing, after all. Even if I have around a million years more life experience

I space back in as Aunt Chana makes a sharp right, past an unfamiliar park. Wait, where are we going?

It had been an awkward night, an awkward morning, Raizy and I tap dancing around each other, being perfectly polite and perfectly cold

“You’re staying with us tonight, you can’t be home alone,” Aunt Chana says, like it’s obvious. “There’s plenty of space, you can share Raizy’s room”