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“Oh, you better believe it. Couldn’t wipe the grin off his face.”
“How did dinner go with Em the other night?” she asks, referring to our night out at the oyster place.
I take a seat at the breakfast bar.
Fuck, if only she really knew what was going on.
“Dinner was interesting,” I tell her. “We were talking about you at one point.”
“Oh, really?
“Well, I am worried about you, Mom. With all this going on.”
She tries to wave that off. “I’ve been able to move my appointment up to Monday. The specialist had a cancellation.”
Good, I want her to get this appointment under way and find out what the hell we’re dealing with.
“There’s something else, Mom.”
“What is it, honey?”
I rest my elbows on the bench and look up at her, sighing deeply.
“Emmerson thought I knew about what happened all those years ago. She thought you’d told me about it.”
Mom’s eyes grow wide. “Honey…”
I shake my head. “Don’t, Mom, just don’t… let me finish.”
“At least give me a chance to explain?”
“I didn’t come here to fight with you, especially when you’re not feeling so good… but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t pretty devastated upon hearing the things you said to her back then.”
“It was a long time ago.” She sighs. “And I’m so sorry, Taylor. I really am.”
“But not at the time, right? You knew how devastated I was when she left… yet you said nothing to me about it.”
Mom just stares at me, not saying anything.
“How could you do that to us?” That’s the part I’m having trouble believing.
“I didn’t know how else to protect you from the unknown, Taylor. There was so much at stake for you; I didn’t want you to throw it all away on a relationship… the only one you’d ever had at that point.”
I stare at her, trying to comprehend the words. “So you accost Emmerson without my knowledge, spinning some bullshit about me not having the gall to break up with her first? What was all that ‘it’s for the best’ shit?”
“I’m not denying what I did. I know it was wrong.”
I hold my head in my hands. “You have to understand how much of a betrayal this feels like.”
“I didn’t know how you could keep it going with the girl you fell in love with from high school. It was your dreams on the line, Taylor! If I could take it back, knowing the damage it caused you both, then I would.”
I get up off my stool because the last thing I want to do is erupt. It was a mistake coming here like this.
It’s tainting everything, and I wanted the good feeling to last.
“You sure they were my dreams, Mom?”
She stares at me, shocked.
