disgusted.
“No, I don’t see it that way.” Danica took a minute to
think, then went on. “It would have been horrible, getting our
family involved or putting us in the middle. Or Dallas would
have been in the middle of two warring factions. Her family
and ours. She never would have wan
ted that. She loved
everyone too much. Her parents would have felt betrayed if
she chose us. They would have been heartbroken and who
knows what kind of bad scene it would have been. I think it
could have been ugly.”
“Hmm.” Quinn hadn’t thought about that. Her first
reaction was that she was slightly disgusted with Dallas’
choice to pick her family over all the other people in her life
who loved her. Quinn realized that there was so much more
that she hadn’t even considered. “I guess I was pretty harsh,
judging her for that decision, but you’re right. None of us are
in that situation right now.”
Danica nodded. “You’re right. We’ll never be back in that
time, as teenagers, again. We can’t really understand her
mindset now, as adults.”
“Dallas also said that her parents never tried to put her in
therapy and that they always loved her. She really believes
they did it because they were trying to help her, even if it was
wrong. She didn’t feel that she could contact us, and then it
was too late. I don’t agree, but that’s what she said. I’m just
telling you what she told me. I hope. Maybe I’m butchering it.
I can’t say it was any smoother coming from her.”
“So her parents…”
“They changed their minds, I guess. Accepted her, I think.