Chapter 8

“What are you thinking?” Lindsey asked her sister once people left the house.

“There are too many emotions flowing through me right now,” Melissa said.

“You’re going to break your fingernails if you clutch your hands any tighter,” Lindsey warned her sister. “How did the talk with Spencer go?”

“Not good. He hates me even if he says he doesn’t. He doesn’t want anything to do with me.” And then, between sobs, Mel told her sister about her conversation with her old boyfriend.

“You tried to pick up your relationship where you left off. That was a mistake,” Lindsey opined.

Mel pondered her sister’s words, “What do you mean?”

“You can’t say ‘I made a mistake, I’m sorry. I still love you, let’s try again.’ You’ll have to start again from the beginning as if you were two strangers. Let him get to know you. Let him see the difference between the teenager you were and the woman you became. With a little luck, he might fall in love with this new you.”