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The burning in Sora's throat grew with every word Teya uttered. It tightened until she felt like choking on it, and that was when she discovered that her cheeks were wet. Her chest felt tight as well. All the feelings wound carefully within were beginning to unravel, much like when Bridget cut directly to the heart of Sora's ever-intensifying misery.

Only now they came out in a well of frustration and, yes, anger. Teya had moved on from Reyes. She had done so swiftly, without consideration for the minefield her daughter still navigated regarding Reyes. She saw how they acted with one another. They acted like Maia and Eljay. In this, Sora felt like an afterthought, and all of Bridget's careful reassurance fluttered away on the wings of her greatest fear of all:

Being abandoned by her mom.

He did leave on purpose or he would be here! And now he has nothing to come back to! she sobbed, planting her feet and feeling her hackles ripple down her back. You replaced him so fast! Why would he ever want to come back here? Certainly not for Sora, who had not been enough for him to stay for in the first place.

You replaced him and you're gonna replace me, too, 'cause you're so much happier with him, aren't you?! Her throat burned. Her eyes burned. Her heart cracked and boiled in her chest. Words came streaming out, nearly half of them not meant, but she could not silence them.