Simone felt awful. She and the family had just driven all the way from Canada into Pennsylvania to visit her father and stepmother. It had been a good trip, uneventful save for a smattering of snow.
However, when Simone sat down at dinner on Friday night, her stomach rebelled at the thought of food. Things deteriorated rapidly from there and Simone, essentially, spent the entire visit feeling ill. Determined not to miss out on too much, Simone insisted on going to all the restaurants and outings. After all, she hadn't seen her father and stepmother in over a year!
"Weren't you sick when you went to France?" Simone's father asked.
"Yes," Simone replied miserably.
"Do you think this might be a pattern?" He joked at dinner Saturday night. "When you don't want to spend time with people, you get sick?"
Simone threw her father a baleful glare.
He lifted his hands up and laughed outright. "Okay, okay, you did not do it on purpose."
A pattern of sabotage indeed.... And to think that the restaurant was offering free, beautiful meringue cookies that Simone had NO appetite for.
Sigh.
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