CHAPTER 13: Lack of resistance.
"Mom hasn't called you?" Tyler asks me the next day over breakfast.
"No," I frown, "Why would she call me?"
When he talks to me without looking at me, I know I won't like his words.
"She thought you were having a birthday, she wanted to ask you what you wanted."
I laugh loudly, outwardly I appear ironic and unflappable, but inside my heart is breaking into little pieces.
"She thought I was having a birthday" I repeat.
"Ask her for a car" Ty tells me, "as mortified and embarrassed as she was to get the date wrong again, she won't deny you."
"It's a month away, in a month she will have forgotten her mistake."
"She'll buy it for you, I bet."
I nod with a sigh. Maybe it's a little cold that Ty and I always take advantage of our parents' careless acts,
