This Time, It's Different

Summary

River Point, Oregon, is anything but normal. Missing people is just another conversation over coffee, and car crashes are just something you don't pay attention to. You've lived your whole life like that, not paying attention to the news, the helicopters just becoming background noise to everyday life. However, everything changed for you and for your family when your older sibling died in one of those accidents.

You all try to move on, your parents stopped fighting, and they actually stopped talking to each other in general. You're left to take care of your little sister, but that isn't before you go to college. A couple of months after you graduated, you're called back to River Point to take care of your younger sister. The same hospital that took care of you when you were younger called you, telling you that you're your younger sister's emergency contact. Not your parents. You.

Now it's time to go back home, back to that town, back to that hospital, back to those people.

As mentioned before, your older sibling died in a car 'accident' when you were younger, and yes, you were in the car with them. You've never stopped blaming yourself. I think it's time to forgive yourself, no?