Chapter Sixteen

Well, my weekend was eventful to say the least. After my melt down at the grill on Saturday I had refused to leave the house for the rest of the weekend. I was embarrassed not only for my scene at the grill but my breakdown in front of Maverick. He had handled the situation really well and seemed genuinely concerned for me but that didn’t make the reality of how I had publicly behaved any less of an embarrassment. Uncle Jesse was up and out of the house early Sunday morning leaving me free to spend the whole of the morning to cry it out, only stopping when I was forced too with a knock on the door from Lucas in the late afternoon. He was sweet, he wanted to stop by and check on me and Arleen had sent him with a bag of food to make sure that I was eating and not skipping meals like I had been doing. I felt horrid for my behaviour towards her on Saturday evening, I made a mental note to apologise for knocking her over in the process of fleeing the grill, she didn’t deserve that, and I sp