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around school all happy and I’m not with you.”
     
    “Jame, you were the one who dumped me, remember?  You are the one who got a new girlfriend almost right away and left me in your basketball dust.  What do you want from me?”  My tears threatened to spill.
     
    “I admit I went a little crazy last June.  We were just getting in too deep and I wanted you so much, it was all I could think about.  Then Father Tim and my Dad started telling me that a girl always holds someone like me back. That I’d never get the basketball scholarship I wanted if I got you pregnant.  That I’d never go to college and you wouldn’t either if that happened. So I got scared and did what they told me. I thought it was the right thing to do for both of us.”
     
    Oh Jame.  I believed him.  He is a good guy and wants to please people.
     
    “But we weren’t doing it, so I wasn’t in danger of getting pregnant.”
     
    “Cath, how long would we have held off? Do you think we would have stopped?”
     
    I looked into those sweet brown eyes and saw my pain reflected back to me.  I shook my head. “No, probably not. So what now? We shake hands and be friends?” 
     
    He inched closer on the bench reached up to push my hair behind my ears and leaned in to kiss me. Ahhhhhhh, I was really home again.  In Jame’s arms, kissing him.  It was probably the wrong thing to do but it felt so right.
     
    “I knew it. I knew it,” he whispered as we sat forehead-to-forehead. “I knew you still loved me.  I miss you, Cath.  Please can we get back together? Please? I’ve been so miserable without you.”
     
    “I want that too, Jame.  I love you so much I thought I’d die without you.  But what about your Dad and Father Tim?”
     
    “They’ll just have to understand.  I’m not gonna give you up ever again, OK?”
     
    We stood up and hugged a lot and kissed a bunch until I knew I had to lock up and go.
     
    “Give me a ride home in your car, Cath?  I’ve been wanting to check it out.”
     
    So I shared a ride home with my sweet Jame and went right back to sharing my life with him.
     
    That day I vowed to love Jame Patterson forever and ever, just like he promised me.

Chapter 21
     
    I didn’t open the box. I hadn’t touched it for a long time and I decided to leave it where it was.  I knew exactly what was in there anyway, but the years had clouded my memory a little and I couldn’t quite bring every detail into focus.  Was that good or bad?
     
    What now, God?  Why did Jame think he wanted this?  What would it do to me? To my girls? Didn’t he have a clue about the damage he would do?  Was he that uncaring and selfish?
     
    I figured he would give me a little space, but I knew Jame wouldn’t give up.  So I wasn’t surprised to get his email later that night.
     
    Cath,
    I am so, so sorry again.  I thought I had figured out all the possible reactions you would have but I wasn’t prepared for the raw pain I saw in your eyes. I didn’t know.  I don’t know.  I left you long ago like a coward and never made it up to you.
    Could we at least talk a little?  I don’t want to rip your world apart but I am on a quest.   You don’t have to be involved in it, although I hoped that when you heard me out, we might do it together.
    Whatever you decide is up to you.  But I am on a mission and I’m sorry that it upsets you.  Maybe if we get things out in the open, it would help.
    Please,
    Jame
     
    Get things out in the open? His quest? His mission?  I started to see red again in my raging pain.  Damn him for bringing all this up to the surface.  It had been buried deep a long, long time ago and that was the only way I could live with it.
     
    I didn’t answer his email.

Chapter 22
     
    27 Years Ago - Our Lady
    of Sorrows High School
     
    Jame and I fell back into our easy routine of being a couple.  Why did we mesh together so well?  Why did our souls seem to belong together?  Maddie said she knew