It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye (and I’m posting this bc the challenge has already expired)

It was sometime when I was in middle school. It couldn’t have been elementary. My dad and stepbrothers were playing a game of basketball at the school next door to our house.

We must have played a game already, but I can’t remember the specifics and I can’t remember if my younger step-sis was playing. There may have been some other kids there too, or perhaps a cousin.

We decided to switch the teams up. It would be me and my dad vs. my three step-bros and whoever else was there.

I didn’t want to be on my dad’s team. I wanted to be on Willy’s team. He was my middle stepbrother and pretty much the same age. He was the most athletic.

Right before we set off, my dad said the most annoying thing, “Alright, baby girl…It’s me and you against the world!”

I felt like I had been socked in the stomach.