Teresa Hill - A Little Bit Engaged

“What’s going on?” Kathie asked. “Joe said— Well, he thought something was wrong. That something had happened. Did something happen?”

“I don’t know,” Kate said, ridiculous as that was. It was her life. If anyone knew, it should be her.

“Why was a priest flirting with you?” Kathie asked.

“I don’t know. Because he’s a jerk?” But he hadn’t seemed like a jerk. He’d seemed like a perfectly nice man. That I’m-no-good-with-women thing… She’d bought that completely.

“So, Joe heard about a priest who was flirting with you and—”

“I don’t know.” Kate was nearly in tears, and she never cried.

Her sister looked upset, too. Really upset. What was that about? Maybe just because Kate was so upset, and it took a lot to get her this way. Maybe Kathie thought something awful had happened.

Kate sniffled and swiped away tears.

“Did I do something?” her sister asked.

“No.”

“Because, if I did… Joe seemed to think something was really wrong, and you’re crying. You never cry. And…well, if it’s me…I’d never want to do anything to hurt you. You know that, don’t you?”

Kate was absolutely bewildered. “What are you talking about?”

“I don’t know,” her sister said.

It was like a disease, spreading through the kitchen. The I-don’t-know-what’s-wrong disease. It had been such an odd day.

“What did Joe say?” Kate asked.

Kathie hesitated, studying her sister, finally saying, “That he wasn’t going to make it home today. Hopefully tomorrow. That he’d call you as soon as he knew for sure. But…he sounded like he thought you were going to break up with him. Are you going to break up with him?”

“I don’t know,” Kate said.

Her sister started to cry, too, then. Maybe everyone was having an awful day.

“I’m sorry,” Kathie said. “So sorry.”

“Me, too.” She didn’t even know for what, but she was sorry, and she gave her sister a hug.

“I miss Mom,” Katie said.

“I do, too.”

And they both stood there, completely miserable, crying for reasons Kate couldn’t begin to understand.

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