I didn’t stay for the apology. I watched my mother and sister’s carefully constructed house of cards collapse from the valet line as I waited for my car. Chloe’s wedding didn’t finish that night. Julian called for an annulment the very next morning, and my parents have been spamming my phone with furious texts, blaming me for “destroying the family.” But as I sit here looking at the block list on my phone, I’ve never felt lighter.

They wanted me to be invisible, but in the end, they were the ones who vanished from my life.