The Choice — Episode 7

important. Then you did. Mason, let's break up. You're angry. The autographed copy of Otana, the one you wanted, I got it for you. Did you really think I didn't bring you I'm not happy. Mason, I like Bape. You don't even care what I like. Vera, are you throwing a tantrum? Why can't you be like Chloe? She likes everything I give her and is never picky

food. If she's really that outstanding, then marry her. Vera, I'm so busy now, could I remember what you like baseball card and a bap hoodie aren't in the same do you have to argue with me about this they're different i watched him walk away and said the rest in my a baseball card and vape are different just like chloe and i are different for the past three days

chloe had been playing the perfect little sister cooking every meal herself setting the wearing my mother's apron sister i know you've been stressed with the wedding let me take care of everyone she made pasta one night a roast the next mason kept telling her how amazing she was My mother kept saying she'd make someone a wonderful wife someday.

I hadn't touched the sugarfina candies. I'd made sure of that, but I'd eaten Chloe's cooking. Half an hour after dinner, my skin started to itch. Red hives bloomed across my face, my neck, the backs of my hands.

My throat began to tighten. Mom? Mason? I went downstairs. The house was empty.

There was a note on the kitchen counter in my mother's handwriting. Went with Chloe to the comic convention. Back late. Leftovers in the fridge.

The whole family. Gone.