Secrets Mothers Keep by Anya Mora

Author:Anya Mora [Mora, Anya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-01T23:00:00+00:00

Four months earlier

Dear Dad,

I feel like you’ve been gone forever and it’s really pissing me off. It’s probably not fair to say that to you because you had no choice in it, but it’s wrong. You were a good dad and a good husband and took care of us. You never messed up, at least, that’s how it felt. And I hate that Mom is replacing you.

She’s hanging out with this guy all the time now. You’d hate him.

Even saying that feels wrong, like I’m betraying Mom somehow, but you would. He’s not like you. He grew up on the East Coast and writes for a paper — that’s why Mom likes him, I think.

But I think it’s stupid. He doesn’t even have a house and maybe Mom thinks that’s cool or something, but I think it means he isn’t staying anywhere for very long.

And what scares me is he’s gonna leave one day, and Mom will fall apart again.

So I keep acting like an ass to him, even though I know that isn’t the Christian thing to do — but am I even a Christian anymore?

I slept with Katie again. It went down like last time. She needed a ride home after school and we pulled over in the woods and I told her I loved her and she said I was being ridiculous. And then we had sex. And she said she hated her life, hated everything, but I told her she was the one being ridiculous now because she has everything. A mom who is there for her, a dad who is alive, everyone at Grace Fellowship. She has the ideal life and she doesn’t even like herself.

I told my friends, Pratt and Jonas, about her. They said she sounded pretty sketchy. I like them both well enough, mostly because they are easy to talk to. And Pratt is always around whenever I’m bored, and want to play a video game or whatever. He’s like always online, so it’s easy to be his friend.

They think she sounds pretty lame because she doesn’t really respect me or herself.

That’s why I like them — they always say it like it is. They don’t tiptoe like Mom does now.

Anyways, I have a test tomorrow and should go to bed.

Love you, Dad.

Ezra

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