Chapter 26
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Barb stood in shock as she watched Mel leave.
“Hey, are you okay?” Janet asked her.
The strawberry blond shivered a little, despite the warmth of the afternoon. “I don’t know. We...I know you don’t want to be here...don’t want to talk to me. I get that. If you want to leave, I can take you to...wherever.”
Janet sighed. “It’s not that I don’t want to talk to you. It’s just...it’s just, I don’t have any idea what to say to you anymore. I don’t know what to do. Everything I do try to do seems to set you off. The other night...” She raised her hands up in mock surrender.
It was Barb’s turn to hang her head. “I’m sorry,” she whispered.
They stood there silently for several long seconds and then Barb spoke, breaking through the tension. “Why don’t we go in? I...I, for
