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Lame, but what could I say?
“So, slightly different, but also the same, though I still miss you something fierce,” she said.
“I miss you too. Who’s planning the ice cream socials?”
“No one. No one can do them as well as you anyway, and with all the changes, I just didn’t have it in me to organize.”
“I’m sorry to hear that,” I said.
“It’s okay. And maybe when you come back, you can take them over again,” she said.
“Carol, is that you fishing for information?”
“No. That’s me expressing a wish. Me fishing for information is me saying where are you and when are you coming back?” she said.
I laughed. “I don’t think I am.”
I hadn’t decided that, at least not officially, but after I spoke the words to Carol, I knew they were true. Whatever I had had at James Industries, in my life before, it wasn’t for me anymore.
“That’s the best news I’ve heard all day, Amethyst,” Carol said.
I smiled. Didn’t speak, but somehow knew that Carol could tell exactly what I was feeling.
“Well, I still have three more minutes before the show is over, and I don’t want to hold you,” she said.
“Good talking to you, Carol,” I responded.
“You too, Amy,” she said.
There was emotion in that word, one that Carol didn’t express, but that she didn’t have to.
“Talk soon,” I said, hoping it was true.
“Talk soon,” she said.
The phone clicked, and I hit the end-call button and held the device in my hand.
I had been putting off the call to Carol, and I hadn’t been sure why.
But it hit me as I sat there, the laughter of children and people going about their day in the park, not holding my attention.
I’d known that things were different, and this conversation with Carol only proved it.
Whoever I had been before, whatever my life had been, it wasn’t that now.
I was leaving my past, and hopefully, stepping into the future.
But I still had unfinished business.
