Chapter 37 - LILY'S BIRTHDAY
Lily turned ten.
The house was filled with balloons.
Ethan burned the cupcakes again.
Rachel laughed.
“You still haven't learned.”
“I thought you loved them.”
“I loved the idiot who made them.”
Lily groaned.
“You two are embarrassing.”
Everyone laughed.
Then Lily gave Rachel a small box.
Inside was a photograph.
Rachel and Lily.
Mother and daughter.
On the back Lily had written:
MY MOM.
Rachel stared at it.
She cried.
Not from sadness.
From relief.
May you like
For years, other people had decided what Rachel was.
Now her daughter had written it herself.
