Part 61 (2/2)

ago, and it wasn't until I left Los Angeles and came up here

that I actually began to get over losing him.”

98Melody Carlson

They chatted a while longer, then Maggie gave Barbara

the number of the hotel, encouraging her to make reserva-

tions right away. She told her to call if she could be of any

more help and then hung up. How utterly amazing! Steven

Harris' mother might actually be coming back to visit Pine

Mountain. Who knew, she might even get here in time to

meet Michael Abundi. What a curious meeting that could be.

She wondered what they might think of each other.

She picked up the phone again. She couldn't wait to tell

Jed this news! But halfway through dialing, her hand

stopped and she hung up the receiver. She suddenly remem-

bered last night's agreement to put their relations.h.i.+p on hold.

She bit her lip and thought for a moment. Did this mean she

must weigh every action, consider every word that was

directed toward him? What was acceptable in a ”normal”

friends.h.i.+p-type relations.h.i.+p between two people of the

opposite s.e.x? And how could this ever be a ”normal” friend-

s.h.i.+p anyway? Wasn't that just a lie? Would a mere phone call

about this good news suggest that she was trying to get

things back to where they were? Or was this whole thing just

suddenly making her extremely paranoid? She wanted to be

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