I went in to Ella’s room once everyone was gone. She was sitting up on her bed, way back in the corner with her knees pulled up to her chest, tears streaming down her cheeks, “Sophie broke up with me,” she said softly.
I climbed up into her bed with her and held her as she cried. I managed to break the hearts of both of my youngest daughters by coming between them. I felt awful, but I said nothing as I stroked Ella’s hair. Her sobs became sniffles after a little while. I watched over her until she cried herself to sleep on my shoulder. I wanted to go back and undo everything. Never opening that bathroom door, never looking at her too small cunt, definitely never touching her bare pussy. All of it, just a quick undo of everything involved in fucking El.
I pulled myself out of her grip and started rummaging in her trash, checking her drawers as gently and quietly as I could, just trying to find anything I could to tell me that what Sophie said was the truth. She woke up as I was rummaging through her nightstand, an assortment of tampons, pads, notes, and miscellaneous stationary scattered in the messy drawer.