Chapter 2: The List She Kept in Secret
Part 2 👇
Nia ate slowly at first, like she was waiting for someone to take the plate away.
The father watched every bite.
Each one hit him harder than the last.
When she finally set her fork down, her small voice broke the silence.
"Daddy…
she threw my lunch away today too.
At school pickup.
I saw her do it."
He went very still.
"She what?"
"She told me I dropped it.
But I didn't drop it." Nia looked down at her hands.
"She does it a lot.
When you're not looking."
The stepmother's chair scraped back hard against the floor.
"She's lying.
She does this, Marcus.
She makes things up to turn you against me.
You know how she is."
Marcus turned slowly.
His voice was quiet.
Too quiet.
"How long has this been going on, Nia?"
Nia hesitated.
Then she slid off her chair, padded down the hallway, and came back holding something small — a torn piece of notebook paper, folded four times.
She held it up to her father with both hands.
"I wrote them down," she whispered.
"The days.
Because I thought one day you would ask me."
Marcus took the paper.
His hands weren't steady.
He unfolded it.
His face changed.
Behind him, the stepmother had gone completely silent — and for the first time all evening, she looked afraid 😨.
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What was written on that paper?
What Nia had been quietly recording all along will break your heart — and expose everything.
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