Chapter 16

While they were having mimosas,Michelle sat in her tub as the water began to chill.She,too,knew this moment would come,that she’d be sitting with nothing but her thoughts and playing out again and again what she had to do.Val wasn’t right.She was not embarrassed for having fallen in love with her.She was embarrassed because she was afraid to come out to her parents.

She’d admired her brother and her sister for being their own people while she remained a creature of her parents.She thought that the moment she stood outside Ethel’s years before and was befriended by someone,entering into that world had freed her from her parents.But it was a lie.She was hiding from her parents.

Cindy