Shelf Love

          "Are you sure you want to do this?" Aidan asked me.           I nodded and took a deep breath. My legs felt extremely weak. I made my way slowly up the steps, looked back at the car and saw Aidan give me a reassuring nod, and rang the doorbell. The door opened and there he was, holding a female version of himself. His smiling face immediately went cold.           "Mia," was all he said.           He gestured for me to come inside and I accepted. I took a seat in the living room while he put the baby back down in her crib. He came and joined me on the couch and we sat there in an awkward silence.           "Why are you..." he started. https://www.pinterest.com/simonecolsen/dad/           "So this is it? This is the reason you left mom, Paige, and I? To have two new daughters, fall in love with someone else, and have that ...

          "Sophia."           Silence. She either knew that it was me and had no idea what to say or didn't recognize the voice.           "Is this...Mia?" https://www.callcentrehelper.com/how-to-support -employees-handling-emotionally-challenging- calls-with-empathy-89536.htm           "Let me talk, do not cut me off or hang up. I know everything. I know why you ended our friendship after all of those years in sixth grade. You were trying to protect your mother and my father! We had been friends for so long the last thing I expected from you, of all people, was to keep this from me! Something so big! He ruined our Christmas and if you were to have told me, things could have been different! I could have confronted him before we all lost him! I could have told my mom so she wouldn't have to lay in bed crying for months wondering why she wasn't good enough! I could have warned...