Madeline:
When he hung up, he gestured for Yuvonne to come with him.
She hurried over, and I could tell his parents must have arrived for him to call her.
“They’re here!” my stepmother said excitedly, wrapping her arm around my father’s and dragging him away.
At that moment, I felt completely alone and out of place.
Then my eyes shifted to my kids, I wasn’t really alone.
“Mommy,” Bodhi said softly.
I nodded to let him know I was listening.
“You’re prettier than your sister,” he added, covering his mouth to laugh.
My other two children nodded too, and he was right, I could never feel alone with them beside me.
After a while, Baxter’s family walked in. A short, chubby man with a bald head and a tall, slender woman with perfectly straight black hair.
She had curves even I couldn’t
