Mutual Attraction
Summer left alone.
I was about six years old when my mother remarried. I’d eventually come to understand that she married him just for a steady income. He was always on some business trip. The only positive aspect for me was that I had a stepsister, Star, who was two days younger than I was. We were inseparable. We never had any of the sibling rivalry you often hear about. We were like twins, knowing what the other was thinking, doing, or a...