I did my best to main the interested smile that I had been keeping plastered on my face for the entirety of the night. Ana was sitting beside me, talking in a very animated manner about what she and Ivy had spent their day doing. As much as I knew that I should have been more appreciative of the fact that the two of them finally seemed to be getting along, but I couldn’t get my mind off of my own troubled thoughts.
My mind was busier than I could ever remember it being. It was reeling with a combination of thoughts and memories, remembering things that I had no business remembering at a time like this. Where once my thoughts had been filled with the teachings and taunts of my father, they were now filled with mere moments where my mother and father had shared one another’s company withou
