It Was Never My Size

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My coworker stuck a fake parking ticket on my windshield as a prank. I actually took it seriously. I turned to Brady, who was sitting in the passenger seat beside me. "Hey, my coworker just texted me a photo of a parking violation on our car. Do you mind handling it?" Brady was scrolling on his phone, not even bothering to look up. "My car’s been parked in the basement garage all week. There’s no way I have a parking ticket." I couldn't shake the nagging anxiety that he had missed something in his usual hurry, so I decided to check the online DMV portal myself. The physical ticket on my windshield was a joke, but when I typed in our license plate, a real citation popped up on the screen. The violation: failure to wear seatbelts—both driver and front passenger. In the traffic camera snap, the passenger’s face was blurred, but I could still tell it was a young woman. I stared at that grainy black-and-white photo for a long time before I finally forced myself to speak. "Two days ago... did you really go out of town on a business trip?" Brady didn't catch the strange tension in my voice. He answered automatically, "Yeah, why?" I stared numbly at the location timestamp on the citation. It was logged right here in the city center. In that exact second, a crystal-clear certainty washed over me: I was done. He hadn't just lied to me about a parking ticket or a business trip. He had lied about all the days I had so naively believed in.

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