Oh no...
"I agreed to meet Neil at the hotel he was staying at. I didn't think things through. We ended up arguing, and things got heated which led to... uhm, well, you know," she mumbled awkwardly.
Gross. I do not want that mental picture.
"After, it just ended up in a worse fight," Mom continued. "Neil thought that he was getting somewhere with me and he was. It scared the sh.it out of me. I had two kids to think about too and... I wasn't sure I could hide a broken heart so easily from you at that age. So, we fought and I left. The next time I saw your father, he was like this."
"But... what happened?" I asked, still confused about all of this.
Mom tried to smile as tears started to fall from her eyes. My first instinct was to reach out and wrap my arms around her. Mom held her hand
