My sister kept walking through our kitchen in a towel and calling it a test of my husband. One Sunday morning he put his coffee down instead of leaving the room.

She had already done that. That was the whole point of saying it there.

By the time we got to the Sunday, anything I said in my own kitchen had already been named in front of the family as me being funny about my house.


PART 4 — 2019

This was not the first time.

In 2019 Bree lived with our cousin Nessa for four months and it finished badly and Nessa moved flats afterward.

I was told at the time that Nessa had been difficult about it.

I did not ring Nessa. Not once. I had the number in my phone the whole time.

My mother rang me in the November of that year and said one sentence that I dismissed inside four seconds, which was: Romilly, don’t have her, love.

I told her that was a horrible thing to say about her own daughter.

It was not horrible. It was the only piece of accurate information anybody gave me in six years and I threw it away because of how it sounded.

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