Xander didn't allow himself to hope for a better life this time around. Despite the fact that all indications pointed to his parents being good parents (and by that point, he'd dealt with enough parents to know the good ones from the bad), or perhaps because of it, he didn't allow himself the slightest glimmer of hope. Because in his experience, Murphy's Law always applied, and if something went right it was just a setup to make the sucker punch hurt that much worse.
He didn't allow himself to hope. Maybe that's why it hurt so much when the inevitable happened.
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