“She wrote a note pretending to be you.”
At first, he looked like his brain refused to accept reality.
Then the confusion sharpened into anger.
When I told him the reason—because the twins weren’t boys—his face changed completely.
He didn’t argue.
He didn’t defend her.
He just grabbed his keys and walked out with a kind of silence that meant: this is over.
We drove home fast.
And when we got there, Lorraine was still inside, still composed, still convinced she’d won.
Until Derek walked in.
“Mom,” he said, voice flat. “What did you do?”
She opened her mouth.
He cut her off.
“Save it,” he said. “I know everything.”
That was the moment I realized something important:
She wasn’t the only one who could use those words.
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