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She smiled. “Dunno, maybe I have a sixth sense, but Dwayne was dropping me home, and you know Liam and his bike. Well, his bike was down, not upright. So, Dwayne commented on it being weird that Liam’s bike was down. I agreed with him and said, maybe Liam had such a good time last night that he forgot. Dwayne said that there was no way that Liam would dump his bike on the ground like that.”
She took a deep breath as she continued the story, “So, he went inside and then Liam called me. He said that he wanted to talk to you, he did a shit thing and could I talk to you.”
“I thought that you said he called you?” I said trying to make heads and tails of what happened from the time Liam came here to when he left.
She nodded. “He did after leaving the house. He talked and told me everything. All the gaps that he missed out when we had our first conversation.”
I wanted to know what happened. Was Liam sorry about the way he behaved? Sorry or just trying to get out of things?
“So, what else did he say?”
She smiled as she took my hand. “He wanted to make sure that you were okay, and I knew the moment you called me that you weren’t okay. I was coming around anyway because he came to my place like two minutes before you called me.”
I nodded my head as I held her hand, trying to digest it all.
“We need to focus on you. So, what do you want to do? Cry? Have another sandwich? Tell me. Just let me know, and we’ll do it together.”
I smiled as she held me and said, “I need to tell Mom. Will you help me?”
She laughed, “Did you not hear a word that I just said?”
I did, but hearing her tell me just made it feel even better. After I became as calm as I was going to be today, I picked up my phone and then called Mom. She was a bit apprehensive and sounded worried on the phone. I told her that it wasn’t an emergency, but I did have something to tell her, and maybe because I sounded a bit too formal, she sounded scared.
I didn’t know how to tell her what was going on, without telling her everything. Afterward, I put on the TV and sat on the couch as Chanel did the dishes. I wanted to help her, but she wanted me to rest. So, I put on the TV, not because I felt like watching it, but just because I wanted to drown out the sound of my cries.
Chapter Six
Mom could have taken around twenty minutes to come home. It could have been longer. The moment she came through the door and she saw Chanel and I on the sofa, she ran to me.
“Adele, what’s wrong? You sounded weird on the phone and then Liam’s acting strange too.”
I didn't want to tell her or dramatize the situation, but I’d been repeating how this whole thing was going to go. The moment she walked through the door and into my arms, I lost courage to do it. Literally.
I’d been visualizing how the talk was going to go and every single time that I replayed it in my head, it ended up badly. That was when I noticed it, as she cupped my face with her hand.
A ring.
An engagement ring.
I took her fingers from my face, as the rough edges stroked it.
“Mom is this what I think it is?”
She nodded, but then hesitated as she said, “Yes, Henry proposed last night. He cooked dinner and I had no idea.”
“But you haven’t even been going out that long. How could you?”
She shook her head. “I thought that you would be happy for me.”
Chanel cleared her throat, reminding us that she was in the room too.
Mom turned to her and said, “Chanel would you mind if I talk to Adele alone?”
This time I was the one who was shaking my head. “No. She should stay. I want her here. Besides, it saves me from telling her what happened here afterwards.”
That annoyed Mom and it was written on her face as she crossed her arms and stood up.
“Well, I’m disappointed about the way that you’re behaving, Adele. I’ve been single a long time. Henry’s a good man and we’re getting married.”
