Chapter 28 Coping mechanisms
When Amelia got home that afternoon, the house felt unusually still.
She pushed the front door closed behind her and dropped her bag by the stairs, calling out automatically, “I’m home.”
No answer.
That wasn’t strange on its own — the twins were often still at after-school care — but something abou...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 First day of school
2. Chapter 2 Family life
3. Chapter 3 Always forgotten
4. Chapter 4 Lunch of champions
5. Chapter 5 Party time
6. Chapter 6 Alone or lonely
7. Chapter 7 Growing up
8. Chapter 8 Just two classes
9. Chapter 9 Anxiety growing
10. Chapter 10 A little broken without her
11. Chapter 11 Missing in action
12. Chapter 12 Permission slip
13. Chapter 13 Going through the motions
14. Chapter 14 Enough
15. Chapter 15 Attention to details
16. Chapter 16 Equal Energy
17. Chapter 17 Rumours
18. Chapter 18 Socially exhausted
19. Chapter 19 Shifting Gravity
20. Chapter 20 Changing tides
21. Chapter 21 Just me
22. Chapter 22 Seeing things
23. Chapter 23 Coffee date
24. Chapter 24 Small Inconsistencies
25. Chapter 25 Unseen Paths
26. Chapter 26 Trip photos
27. Chapter 27 Spiralling
28. Chapter 28 Coping mechanisms
29. Chapter 29 Evidence of Absence
30. Chapter 30 A House That Isn’t Home
31. Chapter 31 Going Home
32. Chapter 32 A Plan Begins
33. Chapter 33 Testing Reality
34. Chapter 34 Uncertain Memories
35. Chapter 35 The Night of Answers
36. Chapter 36 Conflicting Answers
37. Chapter 37 You’re Not Real
38. Chapter 38 Nothing Happened.
39. Chapter 39 The Lie I Tell Myself
40. Chapter 40 You Imagined Her
41. Chapter 41 They Found Her
42. Chapter 42 False Alarm
43. Chapter 43 Should I go back
44. Chapter 44 She’s Everywhere
45. Chapter 45 Just Out of Reach
46. Chapter 46 One Step Ahead
47. Chapter 47 Where She Led Me
48. Chapter 48 The Grave
49. Chapter 49 The Fracture Point
50. Chapter 50 The House That Doesn’t Remember
51. Chapter 51 The Unwelcome Truth
52. Chapter 52 What is real
53. Chapter 53 The Things Said in the Dark
54. Chapter 54 The Morning That Came Too Soon
55. Chapter 55 Miss me ?
56. Chapter 56 The Truth She Brings With Her
57. Chapter 57 Leave me alone
58. Chapter 58 Confessions
59. Chapter 59 The Night She Didn’t Have to Be Alone
60. Chapter 60 Breakfast with Dad
61. Chapter 61 Trying to be brave
62. Chapter 62 The Week That Wouldn’t Let Up
63. Chapter 63 Echoes of the Boys Who Never Lived
64. Chapter 64 Getting help
65. Chapter 65 The Drive Home
66. Chapter 66 Dinner Guest
67. Chapter 67 Dinner for three plus Lola
68. Chapter 68 What where they like
69. Chapter 69 The Questions She Didn’t Know How to Answer
70. Chapter 70 The Homework She Didn’t Want
71. Chapter 71 Trying to find me
72. Chapter 72 Who am I without them
73. Chapter 73 I’m trying
74. Chapter 74 Quiet Strength
75. Chapter 75 Iced caramel latte
76. Chapter 76 First Kiss
77. Chapter 77 Three Things I Like About Myself
78. Chapter 78 Breakdown or Breakthrough
79. Chapter 79 Hot chocolate
80. Chapter 80 Something like strength
81. Chapter 81 Stronger
82. Chapter 82 Finding Her Own Voice
83. Chapter 83 Good Session
84. Chapter 84 Trying something new
85. Chapter 85 New beginnings
86. Chapter 86 Is this goodbye
87. Chapter 87 Its official
88. Chapter 88 Good mood all around
89. Chapter 89 The mural
90. Chapter 90 The Light We Leave Behind
91. Chapter 91 A letter from the future me
92. Chapter 92 10 years later
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