Serena Pemberton

I nod. "Jody, Misty, and Amber," I tell her, and, for a moment, it feels like it's coming from someone else, a distance away, not from me. There are times it seems to me like I must always have been here. Things are so different, home seems like another life entirely. I don't feel like that boy anymore, struggling just to keep my head above water without my parents. "All younger."