Chapter 52
"You had your chance to talk." I move to close the door.
"When? When did I ever have a chance to talk?" She asks, pushing the door back open.
"You had your chance! You had eleven years to find me, and all of the time before that!" I yell.
"I couldn't! You know full well that we would both have had it worse if I'd tried!"
"You would have had it worse? Your life was perfect!"
"Perfect?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot that I destroyed your life. I forgot that I was always a dirty little secret!"
"You weren't exactly easy to live with!"
"I'm so very sorry. I would have left sooner if you'd told me."
"I didn't want you to leave!"
"Why didn't you try to find me, then?"
"I told you, I only wanted to do what was best!"
"Well why did you come now? To make sure I still felt guilty? To make sure it still hurt? To make sure I still couldn't ever be truly happy?"
"I came because you need me!"
"I've always needed you! You've never come before!"
"I never knew!"
"You thought that I'd be perfectly fine, sleeping rough? You thought that everything would be alright?"
"I didn't know it was this bad!"
"Well it is."
"Please let me help, Vince."
"I don't need your help."
"I always could tell when you lied."
"I'm fine."
"Have you ever said that and actually meant it?" I don't reply. "I'm coming in and helping whether you like it or not."