Epilogue

That was the end of the journal. I snuck the box out of their room and made my way back towards my room. It took me a while to understand everything mom had gone through. She was only seventeen when she got pregnant with me. She had told me about it before but never this descriptive. Having been annoyed by the ending I knew what had happened from there; mom had a baby girl who she named Kaylin McKenna Sholves, she and dad got married when I was four, and three months ago they had a second child; Mason.

My alarm went off and I hadn’t slept at all that night, I was busy reading mom’s story and looking at the pictures of her and dad and their friends as teens. People at school always told me how much I look like dad but I didn’t realize it until now; I have the exact same straight black hair and green eyes. Since mom and dad’s tenth anniversary is coming up in two weeks, I decided to make a collage of photos and make