Reclaiming My Place

Clara

The room went completely silent. If someone dropped a pin, I was sure everyone would hear it.

All the reporters froze in place, eyes wide, mouths slightly open as they stared at me, then slowly shifted their gazes to my mother and my brothers, as if waiting for them to stand up and throw me out for daring to say something so outrageous. But my mother didn’t move, and neither did Bryce nor C