Isabel spotted Mercy by the fountain and shifted her weight from one foot to the other. She clutched her bag tighter and walked over.They hugged awkwardly, arms stiff at first. Isabel pulled back first and sighed.“Look, I am really sorry,” she said and sat down on the bench. “I know our relationship has gone through a rough patch and there is nothing I can say to mend it. But I just want to have my best friend back in my life. Things have been so chaotic lately. Everything has been really intense and I just didn’t know how to process it. I know I keep doing this, but can we just fix our loose ends?”Mercy sat beside her and sighed too. She twisted the strap of her purse. “I miss how we used to be before everything became this way. You were my person Isabel. I hated how distant we got after the Vera stuff and the arrest and all of it.”Isabel bit her lip and leaned forward on the bench. “I hated it too. I felt like I was drowning with the twins and the pregnancy and Isaac and I didnt
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