30. Trying to be okay.

"Normally, I always disagree with Mom, but this turns out we're on the same page. Why didn't you say so from the start?" Nadine snorted, asking the same question but using a softer, calmer voice, unlike Pamela, who had snapped at Amanda.

Her sister shook her head. "Because I didn't know where to start; everything went so fast. I thought everything would be fine if I kept quiet, but I missed Oriaga can do anything."

"I should have been suspicious when I saw you looking up that guy's profile on your laptop, but I thought it was because you were once close friends." Nadine cleared her throat, and she touched her sister's arm. They stood next to Amanda's bedroom window as the shorthand hit one in the morning.

Nadine came home from work feeling normal, but when she got home, she was in for a rude shock. Pamela had asked Nadine to sign a piece of paper offering marriage from Oriaga.

Pamela couldn't wait to fill it in, and she didn't need to wait a week or even a day. Pamela could agree to i