When Amanda nodded again, Nancy hung her head in shame. “Can-Can I come inside?” she asked. “There’s something I’d like to tell you. I feel like I need to talk.”
Amanda opened the door wider, and Nancy stepped inside. They settled in the living room. “Emma was my classmate,” Nancy began, her voice filled with remorse as she recounted her past. “She was also my friend. But I wronged her and…Patrick…”
20 years ago…
Nancy and Patrick were in their school’s hallway. She was standing by her locker when Patrick walked up to her.
“Hey, Nancy,” he said softly, and she turned to look at him.
“I…I need to tell you something,” Patrick added nervously.
“Hey,” she smiled. “Yes?”
“I…I’m in love with someone else, Nancy,” he confessed. “I know you’ve been really kind and everything, but I’m sorry.”
Nancy was stunned. “Tell me it’s a joke, Patrick,” she cried. “You can’t be serious!”
But Patrick was dead serious. He was head over heels in love with Emma, and Emma loved him back.
Nancy was so distraught that day that she ran home in tears.
“Darling, what’s wrong?” Her mother immediately sensed something was amiss at school.
Nancy sobbed as she told her mother how Patrick had broken up with her.
“I want to break them up!” she yelled. “I won’t let them be together!”