I nodded my head. My mother was making some good points. If I kept myself locked up as some sort of a shut in then I was just going to sit there and think about Daniel and feel sorry for myself. That wasn’t helping anything. Hell, in fact it was allowing Daniel to hurt me even more. I knew he hadn’t done what he did to intentionally hurt me. He was just doing what felt right to him and damn the consequences to anyone else. He was a selfish jerk. And he was extremely indecisive apparently. That was a character flaw I wished I’d seen in him much earlier. I’ve always been very decisive and strong willed. I don’t understand the other approach.

  “I understand,” I said. “It’s just so hard to move when you feel paralyzed. At times I feel like I can hardly catch my breath.”

  Tears welled up in my eyes just then and I felt pain in my chest as if my heart were actually being ripped apart. God, I was in so much pain. When would it stop?

  “Stop that,” my mother said. “There is no reason for it. Crying and wallowing in your misery is the biggest waste of time. Right now you need to be happy.”

  I looked up at my mother as if she were crazy.

  “What the hell do you mean?” I asked.

  My mother smiled.

  “I mean, when there is something bad going on in your life it’s so easy to react and focus on the negative, but there is a positive outcome to everything. And when we latch onto that positive aspect we grow, we learn, and we become much stronger. That is how the human race has thrived so well.”

  I shook my head.

  “Wow, how did my mother become the next Aristotle?” I asked with a smile.

  My mother laughed and shook her head at me.

  “You’ve always been such a smart mouth,” she grinned.

  “I know,” I said. “I think I learned it from you.”

  “Probably.”

  I stood up and placed the ice cream back in the freezer.

  “I guess I’ll go to the dance after all,” I said, the sound of defeat hanging in my voice. This was the last thing in the world I wanted to do, but something my mother said clicked with me and I realized it was the best thing for me to do. I needed to give myself permission to forget, for at least one night. It was time to let go and just have a good time with my friends.

  I just had to forget that Daniel ever existed.

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