Going Home

Part 83

 The night was warm and it was pleasant on the balcony where they could feel a faint breeze.

Sipping her wine Margaret asked “so Grace, do your parents live near by? We’d love to meet them some day.”

Grace looked at Margaret for a minute and then turned her head and looked out at the night. It wasn’t that she didn’t want Josh’s parents to meet her Mum and Dad, it was just that before that could happen she needed to explain things and she wasn’t sure how Margaret and Robert were going to take it. She didn’t want them to think badly of her or for their feelings about her to be the cause of a problem in their relationship with Josh.

Watching Grace as she waited for a response Margaret could sense the younger woman’s unease and while not sure of the cause, she didn’t want to upset Grace. Not only because this may also upset Josh but for Grace’s own sake. Margaret liked Grace and she didn’t want to be the cause of any distress for her. So trying to resolve the situation Margaret said “maybe it’s too early for that. We are still getting to know Josh again.”

But shaking her head Grace looked at Margaret and said “it isn’t that. It’s just that before you meet my parents I have to tell you something about me and I’m not sure you’ll be happy to hear it. I just don’t want you to hate me because of it.”

Studying her worried expression Margaret reached over and laid her hand on Grace’s. “Grace honey whatever it is, it can’t be so bad that it would make me hate you. You helped my son when we weren’t there to do it and for that alone I could never hate you. Besides I know Josh loves you and if he can love you knowing whatever it is then how can we think any differently?”

Grace looked at Margaret for a minute and didn’t speak. Then gathering her courage she got straight to the point “Margaret when Josh and I met I was married.”