“Why? Did something happen at the dinner that I don’t know about?”
I threw myself back onto my pillow and said, “It’s too complicated, Mom! I… I just can’t talk about it.”
“My,” she said after a moment. “Don’t you sound like a teenager.” “I’m sorry,” I whimpered, because I knew I was hurting her feelings.
I sat up and said, “Mom, all those years I liked him? I never really knew him.
All I knew was that he had the most beautiful eyes I’d ever seen and that his smile melted my heart like the sun melts butter.
But now I know that inside he’s a coward and a sneak, so I’ve got to get over what he’s like on the outside!
My mother leaned back and crossed her arms. “Well,” she said. “Isn’t this something.”
“What do you mean?” She chewed the side of one cheek, then moved over to chew the other.
At last she said, “I shouldn’t really discuss it.” “Why not?”
“Because… I just shouldn’t. Besides, I can tell there are things you don’t feel comfortable discussing with me….”
We stared at each other a moment, neither of us saying a word.
Finally I looked down and whispered, “When Chet and I were fixing up the yard, I told him how we didn’t own the house and about Uncle David.
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