Chip Chick
“You would need a tragedy or two in your life to understand struggle. I love you, but you never experienced any hardship in your life, haha.”
Well, every single person in the room was quiet and stopped talking. The silence was palpable, but she salvaged things by asking if any of her guests were hungry.
The evening went on, and nobody brought up that particular conversation again.
A day later, Camilla sent her a text demanding to know why she did what she did to her. Apparently, Nate had set Camilla straight when they got home.
Camilla had assumed all along, and she had assumed wrong about her in particular. Although it certainly might seem that she has lived a life of privilege, she hasn’t at all.
Her dad was abusive to her growing up, and then when she hit her teen years, she was so sick that she lived in the hospital for months on end.
Her sickness left her needing several surgeries in order to save her life, and then she had to learn how to walk from the beginning like she never knew how.
Camilla is furious with her for not setting the record straight in front of all of their friends that evening.
“Camilla is mad at me for not telling these very personal things to her before and making her look terrible to Nate’s friends,” she explained.
“She said that even correcting her at the party would have been better because then she could’ve apologized to me in front of everyone, but I took that chance away from her and now she will never make friends here.”
She simply cannot see how Camilla can be upset with her over an assumption that Camilla made, but she’s still curious if it was impolite of her to stay silent over Camilla’s accusations that night.
