Therese’s Story – Chapter 37: Crazy
Cait and I were visiting her mom and aunt one weekend. Her mom was doing okay by then. She hadn’t started working again but kept saying she was going to soon. And she hadn’t gotten her own place yet either. She said she was looking, but Cait and I both thought she was lying about that. Whenever we were there, we slept in the bedroom that was supposed to be her mom’s, and she would always say, “I’ll just sleep on the floor in Jessica’s room, I don’t mind at all.” But it was obvious she never used her room. One time, Cait even put some things under the top mattress, just before we left. You couldn’t see them, but it would’ve been impossible to sleep on, and when we came back weeks later, the …