"I have always been the voice of reason," Atticus began, his voice low, as if he was trying to keep the emotions that threatened to spill over at bay. "And I'm trying to be the mediator because I..." He trailed off, taking a deep breath. "You need to stop acting like a child and talk to us."
With a violent jerk, you flung the covers off, your body rising to face them, trembling with the force of everything you’d been holding back.
"Oh, so now I'm the child?!" The words ripped out of you before you could even stop them. "You both destroyed this whole house fighting over me... and it’s not even me you’re fighting for. That’s what hurts more than it fucking should."
You turned away, unable to meet their gazes. The bitter laugh that escaped your lips was hollow, broken.
"Because I knew I shouldn’t expect much from this world... or from you both!" Your voice trembled, cracking under the pressure of everything you couldn’t say. "No! Because I’m not them. I’m just a foreign soul stuck in this body..."