Chapter 283: No Dignity
Emily and Derek were no longer an item. Pretty soon, he would be somebody’s husband. Knowing that had nearly destroyed Emily, but the world had kept on moving. So Emily had no choice but to keep on moving too.
No job, no man, but she still had her mother, and that was what Emily was clinging to, to get her through the days.
Every morning after a night spent embroidering. Emily faked waking up around the time that her mother did. When her mom got out of the shower, she made sure to have breakfast ready.
The two of them actually having time to eat together before her mom was out the door going to work.
With her mom gone, Emily mostly stayed home. Either cleaning, and cooking, or working on her embroidering. Being very careful to ignore a particular finished piece...the heart that she had made for Derek.
The last time that Emily had touched it. It had been to put it, and the unfinished puzzle away.
Now she was scared that if she were to get her hands on it, she would either destroy it or hold it close and cry. Neither option was very appealing to her.
So she had just decided to let it be for the time being.
Spending most of her days cooped up. Her world revolving around her mother, and her embroidery, was no way to live. But Emily had made it her personal mission to avoid the outside world. Even going as far as to make sure that she was not online, as often as she could have been now that she had the time for it.