The Weight of Lies

Valerie’s POV

As a family, Mom, Dad, the girls, Darius, Bryce, and I ate the cake the girls and I had made and brought. We laughed and joked. Mom and Dad told stories, and the girls asked questions. Everyone kept smiling at me.

I might have been missing the memories from the past six years of my life, but I was certain that I never in my life felt as whole and as loved as I did right in this momen