“What do you want? Did you utilize safety? Do we have to go to the pharmacy?”

I shook my head and gave her a tender smile. “No. Hawk used safety.”

She sighed in aid. “I knew I at all times preferred that boy. He handled you okay?”

“Yeah, Mother. He did. He was wonderful, and I feel I might love him, however I can’t do this to Bry.”

“Your brother loves you each. He may not have the ability to settle for it now however don’t quit on him. He at all times does like to attend till a full depend to swing.”

She stored petting my hair, stroking it as we spoke. It was soothing and comforting, one thing I’d desperately been needing.

“A small a part of me stored hoping he’d cease me and inform Bryce that he cherished me too. However he didn’t. Although I do know I began it by saying it meant nothing, I wished him to show me unsuitable in some epic romantic gesture. However he simply went together with it. He let me break each of our hearts. Why?”

“Rejection is a tough factor to swallow for anybody, BB, and you know the way laborious it’s been for him since Libby died. Simply give him time.”

Sucking in a breath, I knew my mother was proper. However I couldn’t wait round for some romantic gesture or for Hawk to save lots of me from the mess I made. Actions had penalties, and I’d set us on this path. It was time I rescued myself.

“How a lot of a large number did I make?” I requested, choosing at my nails or what was left of them.

“Nothing your father’s PR crew can’t deal with. Don’t fear about that. You probably did the correct factor.”

“Hawk and I broke into the reception and stole meals and cake, by the way in which. It was scrumptious. You probably did an incredible job.”

Mother laughed, asking me how we managed it, and I regaled her with the fork-brandishing second.

“Oh, BB, I can simply image it. My fierce little warrior princess.”

“Thanks, although I don’t really feel very like a warrior princess, a lot much less a fierce one,” I admitted, dropping my eyes. “I hate my job. I nonetheless reside at residence and simply left my fiance on the altar. It’s not likely all that nice in my nook proper now.”

“I’ve an concept, however I need you to consider it and never do it simply because I’m suggesting it,” she mentioned, holding my eyes till I nodded in settlement. “Aunt Lola has at all times wished you to go to. This may very well be the proper alternative. You have already got day without work from work for the honeymoon. Go and go to her as an alternative. Get away from all the things right here and see if yow will discover your personal path.”

Aunt Lola, Mother’s youthful sister. The wild one.

I hadn’t seen her since I used to be little, not since she moved to Greece. “Do you suppose she’d be okay with that?”

“In fact. She’d adore it. And there’s this new wellness middle she instructed me about. I feel it may very well be time to see somebody and work out who you’re, away from baseball and your sickness.”

“And also you all.”

She shrugged, however I might see the disappointment in her eyes. It was how I knew this wasn’t a ploy however a real lifeline she was giving me—an opportunity to interrupt out by myself and be me with out the affect of anybody else.

It felt scary. The furthest I’d ever been away from my household was an hour. I didn’t know if I might go two entire weeks.

But it surely additionally sounded wonderful and exhilarating. My coronary heart thumped in my chest on the considered exploring myself and speaking to somebody who didn’t know me. I’d at all times wished to do remedy, however one thing at all times stopped me.

“It’s not working away?” I requested, biting my lip.

“What’s your father at all times say about working the bases?” she requested, lifting a forehead.

I sighed and nodded. “You gotta know when to steal and when to retreat.”

“Precisely. I feel that is the proper time to retreat and let your coronary heart heal.”

I sucked in a deep breath as I assumed it over and realized she was proper.

“Assist me pack?”

My mother smiled and hugged me, kissing me on the cheek as she nodded. And identical to that, I used to be heading off to organize for a visit.

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