Chip Chick
“I feel like she wasn’t even really trying to convince me; maybe she was just trying to start a fight. I don’t know how to explain it. There was no concern in her voice like you’d think she would be upset someone is cheating on her dad, right? No, she sounded annoyed that I was asking questions and poking holes in her story.”
He instantly phoned Liz to fill her in before reassuring her that he wasn’t buying Sally’s story at all. He did ask Liz to come by his house so they could sit down and talk to Sally as a team.
Liz arrived, and then asked Sally to sit on the couch and explain to her what it was that she believed she saw happen in the park.
Sally stated that she saw Liz kissing some tall, random man, and Sally went on to describe Liz’s high school boyfriend from the heart-outlined yearbook photo.
Liz responded by letting Sally know how let down she was that she couldn’t have come up with something more creative than lying about her cheating with the guy from her yearbook.
Liz continued, saying she didn’t even go to high school in the state they live in, so the chances of running into her high school boyfriend in their zip code were basically zero.
Liz finished by saying her high school boyfriend was an awful person, and she couldn’t be paid enough to go anywhere near him today.
Sally sat there silently and stared into her lap. Liz got up, said she required a couple of moments to gather her thoughts and went to make herself coffee.
A few minutes later, Liz returned, telling Sally she can tell she misses her mom, and if her mom had never passed away, Liz would never have entered their lives.
Liz pointed out to Sally that she was not trying to replace her mom at all; she was only hoping they could all have a great relationship.
Liz added that if she was Kate, she would have wanted her husband to find a woman to be his companion and teammate because nothing is worse than being alone in life.
