"Julia's gone now," I stated.
"That's the problem with all of you, isn't it?" she said, raising her voice slightly. "You all think that because Julia is gone means that Nadine should magically just feel better. It doesn't work like that. Those voices Julia planted in her head are still there and they're loud. Do you even know what all that woman used to say to Nadine?"
"I know most of it," I mumbled ashamed.
"Oh! So, you know about the body shaming and how Julia used to call her a desperate wh.ore and tell her that she's nothing but poison that ruins everything? That she used to call Nadine fat and would force her to skip meals? That Julia told that little girl every chance she got that no one loved her? That you, War, Shooter, all of you... never liked her, never wanted her around, onl
