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Just this:
You really could’ve helped.
I read it once, then set my phone face down on the nightstand.
Because that was the final piece, wasn’t it? Even after losing the apartment, moving her things, crying, and making threats, she still believed the story was about my refusal instead of her decisions.
I didn’t reply.
Some silences are avoidance.
This one wasn’t.
This one was a boundary.
And somewhere at my parents’ house, with Brianna’s boxes still stacked in the garage and my mother still insisting it all happened too quickly, they finally had to sit with a truth they had avoided for years:
I was never their backup plan.
I had only agreed to play that role.
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