Heart of Glass by Nicole Jacquelyn EPUB & PDF

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• Authors: Nicole Jacquelyn
• Language: English
• Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction
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Trevor
Even month after his death, my little brother was still the first person I
thought about when I woke up in the morning and my last thought before
falling asleep at night. He was everywhere I looked, in every conversation I
had even when his name wasn’t mentioned. It was ironic, really, that he
took up so much headspace when in the last few years before his death I
could go days without thinking about him at all.

Henry had always been like that. He showed up at the least opportune
moments, like the night I’d finally asked Kristen Preston out my junior year
of high school and he’d plopped down beside us in the movie theater like
I’d invited him along. When I should have been thinking about him and
talking to him, we’d both been too busy to catch up, and now that he was
gone and I’d do anything to erase that fact from my mind, he was all I could
think about.

I missed him like hell. I was also so angry with him that I wanted to
punch something.
I wondered if other siblings, ones who’d been born into the same family
by accident of birth, felt the same way toward each other as I did toward
Henry. Did they get so angry that they wanted to shake sense into their little
brothers, or was it easier to give up on someone they’d never had to fight
for to begin with? When he’d come into our lives, Henry’s placement had
been temporary. It was months before we’d known that he might stay
forever. As a boy who had watched numerous other children move in and
out of our house, knowing that Henry would stay had been difficult for me.

I’d had to make a conscious choice to think of him as family. Once that
shift had been made, though, I’d known that nothing would ever sever that
bond. Even after all of the things I’d found out about Henry after his death,
I still felt myself fighting for the memory I had of him, searching for the
answers that would show that his decisions in life had made any type of
sense.

“Mom?” I called out as I pushed the door open without knocking. “You
home?”
“I’m back here,” she yelled back from somewhere in the bowels of the
house I’d grown up in.

I followed the sound of her voice down the hallway and found her seated
at the long table in her craft room, gluing little sheets of paper on to a
scrapbook page.

“Hey, Trev,” she said, lifting her head to smile at me. “Everything
okay?”
Guilt hit me hard and fast. A few months ago, a random visit wouldn’t
have garnered that type of question, but my mom seemed to have aged by
years in less than a few months.

Losing Henry, a boy she’d raised as her
own since he was only two, had been a blow she hadn’t recovered from, but
the revelation that he’d abandoned his own child seemed to have
completely broken her.
“Just wanted to see you,” I said, smiling back. I stepped into the room
and looked over the scrapbook she was making.

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