Her eyes shot to the swirling water in the toilet, like she couldn’t really believe what she had just seen. Her eyes narrowed into tiny lines and she spun around and made a run for the door of Cutter’s room. “Heather!” I called out after her, tripping over my own two feet as I tried to catch up with her. I reached the door just as she was about to open it and I pushed her body to the side, throwing my back up against the wood so that she couldn’t open it. “Heather, no! It’s not what you think!” She grabbed me by the wrist and tried to fling my body out of the way. “It’s not what I think? It’s not what I think? What I think is that I just walked in on the woman my brother cares about flushing her birth control pills down the toilet! Are you telling me that didn’t happen?” My insides felt like they were all knotted up into tight balls. “I can explain.” “I should have known better than to think that you were different.”
