I laughed so hard that my body shook, my stomach tightened, but my eyes still stung, and a huge lump formed in my throat.

The smile instantly dropped from my face, and I looked back at Medea to see her jaw clenched.

“Are you listening to yourself, Medea?” I asked, my voice low but hard. “Huh? Do you even know the rubbish you’re spitting? You’re doing all this because I was arrogant and rubbed it in your face? How? When you came into my life, I was mourning my mother! And I was slowly losing my father. And you say I was being arrogant?”

She rose from her seat slowly,...