ZORA

My heart dropped to the bottom of my stomach as I stared at my mother in disbelief.

"I should have stayed dead?" I repeated.

Julie stood, hands akimbo, "What use are you to us as you're alive? You were not useful then, and you'll be useful now?"

"Why exactly do you hate me so much? Why did you lie?!" I screamed, "Why are the people who are supposed to be concerned about me nonchalant? Is this what family means to you? To all of you?"

"You are no longer a part of this family. Don't count yourself as one."

I shook my head in despair and anger.

"How did...