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So that’s how it’s done. You don’t ask, you tell.
“Great. I’ll tell her.” Abby looked at me and said, “Grandma said she’s in.”
“You didn’t even tell her when it is,” I reminded her.
“Grandma, it is in two weeks. Is that okay with you? Mom, she said that is good and asked if Grandpa can come, too. Guess he wants to make it a family vacation like the old days. Grandma said she will go online and grab her tickets today too.”
“If he’s coming, then why don’t you ask Timothy, too.” If it’s not a girls’ outing, everyone might as well be there. Since I didn’t have to pay for my last cruise, and haven’t gone on vacation for a while, I was lucky to have some savings set aside for an occasion just like this. I wasn’t totally sold on the cruise. There were so many other things we could all do that would be more lowkey. I wasn’t sure how my suggestion would go, because Abby already had everyone excited about the cruise, but I had to try. “I just got back from a cruise a few months ago. We don’t have to all go on a cruise. We could rent a house on a beach.”
“No. We can go to the beach anytime. It’s not even far. You can’t back out. Grandma already asked Grandpa and you know he hates it when we can’t make up our mind. We don’t want him to back out.”
“Fine. Guess we’re all going on vacation together.”
Abby got up, came around the table, and hugged me. “Thank you, Mom. This is going to be the best vacation ever.”
“Yeah. I can’t wait,” I said. Deep inside, I wanted to be anywhere other than the same ship where I’d spent those wonderful nights with Rick. Thankfully Betty already confirmed when she invited me to her wedding that this wasn’t another singles’ cruise. That would be extremely awkward with my family around. They would’ve signed me up for every event, and the trip would’ve been pure hell. It wasn’t going to be easy no matter what type of cruise it was.
At least I will have all my family around me to keep me distracted. Maybe I will be too busy to even think of Rick.
I knew that as long as I was alive, Rick would haunt my thoughts. I still loved him. I ached for him. And it was taking everything I had to not reach out to him.
I let one text go unanswered, but I’m not sure I could ignore more.
