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    If These Wings Could Fly

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    If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley follows Leighton, a teenage girl living in a troubled home in a small town. Struggling with family secrets and an abusive father, she finds solace in the local bird sanctuary. As she learns to navigate her own path, Leighton discovers the power of friendship, hope, and personal strength.

    In Chap­ter Six­ty-Three of “If These Wings Could Fly,” the pro­tag­o­nist wakes up in the ear­ly hours of Christ­mas Day to the sound of Axl Rose’s music and raised voic­es from down­stairs. Feel­ing uneasy, they sneak into their sis­ters’ room, where they find them hud­dled in fear. As the com­mo­tion con­tin­ues, it is clear that their father is in a volatile state, search­ing for his lost cell phone. After fix­ing a bro­ken lock on their door with a screw found on Liam’s win­dowsill, they muster the courage to join their moth­er and con­front the chaos in the kitchen.

    Their father, vis­i­bly angry, holds a copy of the Auburn Gazette that fea­tures the pro­tag­o­nist’s essay, which has been anony­mous­ly pub­lished. Although the essay is a heart­felt expres­sion aimed at heal­ing and under­stand­ing their fam­i­ly dynam­ics, the father per­ceives it as a threat to his rep­u­ta­tion and their fam­i­ly’s con­struc­tion busi­ness. The daugh­ters, caught in the cross­fire of the esca­lat­ing ten­sion, fear for their safe­ty as their father’s rage becomes increas­ing­ly unpre­dictable. He lash­es out, blam­ing the pro­tag­o­nist for ruin­ing their lives and threat­ens harm.

    The sit­u­a­tion dete­ri­o­rates as he phys­i­cal­ly assaults their moth­er, lead­ing the pro­tag­o­nist to inter­vene out of des­per­a­tion. This act of brav­ery results in a chaot­ic con­fronta­tion marked by fear and des­per­a­tion, as the sib­lings try to pro­tect each oth­er amid their father’s aggres­sion. The chap­ter cap­tures the fraught dynam­ics of fam­i­ly trau­ma, the des­per­a­tion to escape vio­lent sit­u­a­tions, and a son’s instinct to pro­tect his moth­er and sis­ters.

    As the chap­ter pro­gress­es, the ten­sion height­ens and cul­mi­nates in an alarm­ing moment when the pro­tag­o­nist real­izes the grav­i­ty of their father’s actions and their own vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty. Just when hope seems lost, some­thing unex­pect­ed crash­es in: Dad’s lost cell phone falls onto the win­dowsill, sym­bol­iz­ing a flick­er of hope amidst the chaos—a poten­tial means to com­mu­ni­cate and seek help.

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