The exposed truth must have hit Harry hard.

"I don't want a new mom," Hayden said. "I don't want to stay at home or go to school. It feels like everyone is overly careful around me, whispering behind my back. They think I don't know what they're talking about, but I do!"

Coco could relate. When her parents had just passed away, her relatives, the teachers, and students at school treated her with the same cautiousness while still gossiping behind her back. She knew exactly what they were saying a