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"Because I'm an expert at watching people who aren't watching me back," Lia said. "It's what you do when you're the extra one."

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That night, Lia's mother found her in the kitchen, staring at the laminated chore chart. Her mother put a glass of water on the counter, but no sleeping pill bottle beside it. "Because I'm an expert at watching people who

Her rebellion was quiet. She stopped coming to community dinners. She ate in her room, door just barely ajar. She stopped saying "good morning" and instead just nodded. Her mother would find her in the dark, staring at the ceiling. Her mother put a glass of water on

Shouts. Rafa's voice, raw and cracked. Then Mateo's, lower, urgent.

Lia turned away. "Dad didn't choose to die."

Lia was fourteen, an only child until six months ago. She was a planet that had suddenly acquired a chaotic, noisy solar system.