PART 3
I looked down at the badge on my chest.
Then back at her.
“I tried.”
My father took one step toward me.
“Arthur, listen. We didn’t know. Julian told us—”
“Exactly.”
My voice wasn’t loud, but it stopped him.
“Julian told you something, and you believed him. I told you something, and you refused to listen.”
My mother pressed the tissue against her mouth.
“We thought you had left medical school.”
“I know what you thought.”
“We thought you were in trouble.”
“I know.”
“We were worried about you.”
That sentence finally broke something inside me.
I took a slow breath.
“Worried? Mom, I called you from a hospital room when Sarah was dying. I told you I was taking an approved leave of absence. I told you I was coming back. I told you I had paperwork proving everything. Do you remember what you said?”
She shook her head.
I remembered every word.
“You told me I had embarrassed the family. You said you didn’t want to hear another excuse. Then Dad told me not to call until I was ready to apologize.”
My father’s face changed.
He looked at my mother.
Then at the floor.
“I don’t remember saying it like that,” he muttered.
“I do.”
I reached into the pocket of my white coat and pulled out my phone.
For five years, I had kept certain things.
Not because I wanted revenge.
Because sometimes, when people spend years telling you that your memories are wrong, you need evidence that you aren’t losing your mind.
I opened an old folder.
There were photographs of Sarah.
Her hospital bracelet.
A picture of us sitting outside the oncology center.
What happened next changed everything… FULL STORY on the next page.
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