And there is a strange gift in learning that so completely, so unmistakably: it ends, forever, the question of whether you should have stayed.

You do not grieve leaving a house where the love turned out to be a light switch.

You only wonder, for a while, how you lived so long in a room you mistook for a home.

Chapter 3 — Chloe

And then there was Chloe.

Chloe was Logan’s lifelong best friend, and I want to be careful in how I describe her, because the easy version of this story makes her a villain, and the true version is more complicated and, I think, sadder.