20 Chapter 19

Chelseaville March 1976

Hope imagined that after the blissful confrontation she had had with Harrison, and the fuzziness of summer hurtling around her, unforeseen circumstances would be only plain cruelty. It was not just the romance; it was the way she knew she could not leave as if the idea of it would be similar and absurd as asking her to live without a vital organ in her body. This terrified Hope as she knew to fend for herself being reared in a home where she wasn’t the spotlight regarding her sentiments and sanity. So, when she pulled up to the driveway in her father’s shiny Plymouth roadie after her shift at the Jug and Lion she was appalled to see her mother at the doorstep, with a glum look on her as if she was waiting for an impending apocalypse.