Slipping Away

JARED WHITAKER

My nerves stilled and so did every cell in my body as soon as my father uttered those words.

“Jared…”

Stella called for me, for an explanation or at least a simple word of denial but I was just frozen to my spot, one part of me wishing that this was not happening right now.

And then before I knew it, she was leaving.

I needed to stop her, I needed to tell her my father was lying and