The Confrontation

POV: Avery

The afternoon sun slanted across the cracked plaster wall of my dorm room, a golden beam marking the agonizing time I spent dreading this impending moment. Maya left for her field medicine practicum an hour ago. The silence she left behind pressed against my ears, amplifying the frantic rhythm of my heart. I sat on the edge of my narrow bed, staring at my hands twisted in my lap. I wil