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“I just wanted more time to spend with you all before I left,” I finish. “The fact that you would even think I was in a hurry to leave my family, especially you, hurts a lot,” I tell Harlan. He looks at me with a guilty expression, “I just thought you could not wait to leave us and I got bitter, I am sorry,” he says.

I nod at him and then I face my food. We do not talk about anything else during dinner and when I am done with my food, I excuse myself and walk back to my room. Ten minutes later, there is a knock on the door, and my mother walks in before I can say come in. “Luna, I know you are not in a hurry to leave us,” she says.

“Then why did Harlan assume I was?” I ask her. She sighs and says, “You know that he will probably miss you the most out of all of us and he was just sad because he thought you were in a rush to leave. I mean you packed on your first d