At My Housewarming Party, My Sister’s Lie Was Exposed on Camera—Then My Mother Smashed a Bat Across My Head and My Little Girl Started Crying Blood
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Chapter 23 - LILY AND BASEBALLAt five, Lily wanted to try T-ball.
I nearly said no.
Not because she was afraid.
I was.
When the coach handed her a plastic practice bat, my scalp tingled where the scar sat beneath my hair.
Lily held it backward.
The coach laughed.
I didn’t.
Ben whispered:
“You okay?”
“No.”
“Want to leave?”
I watched Lily.
She was grinning.
“No.”
The first practice lasted forty-five minutes.
No flashback swallowed me.
No bat transformed in anyone’s hand.
Lily hit the ball approximately four feet.
Then ran toward third base.
Wrong direction.
Ben laughed so hard he cried.
A bat became sports equipment again.
May you like
Not immediately.
That afternoon helped.
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Chapter 24 - DIANE SEES LILY AGAINDiane did not see Lily for nearly two years.
Chapter 25 - OLIVIA AND MEOlivia and I did not become best friends.
Chapter 26 - THE CAMERA FILEThree years after the party, Ben asked whether we still needed the raw security footage on our everyday home system.
Chapter 27 - The EndThree years after our housewarming party, Lily was six.
Chapter 27 - The End
