Chapter 298: Dissapoint
Disappointment, one of life’s unwanted but fairly consistent aspects. Everyone had been disappointed at some point in time. In fact, many people got disappointed several times a day. Either being let down by someone who was supposed to do something for them.
Or letting themselves down in failing to accomplish a task that they had really been set on doing. That was disappointment, and if there was one group of people who really knew how it felt.
Then it was parents, who were used to being let down.
Especially by their children.
Kids messed up a lot. They got into fights. They failed subjects at school. Then even as adults, they made poor financial decisions and also horrible choices when it came to who to pick as a spouse, or a life partner.
That was how disappointing children could be. But that was just the way things were. An accepted and well-known part of the human experience.
But something that was rarely talked about was the fact that the scenario could be flipped. Children could be disappointed in their parents as well. And that was devastating.
Jane Molson was currently living through that, and she did not like it at all. If it were a roller coaster ride, then she would have demanded that they stop immediately so that she could get off.
The way that Emily was looking at her made Jane want to find a place to hide. Or maybe to start redirecting blame. ’I only sent him away to protect you. If you really wanted to talk to him, you could have just called him.’
’Why waste so much time and energy waiting for him to come to you in person,’ Jane could have said. But she knew that that would be the wrong thing to do. Matters of the heart were complicated. Things said over the phone were not the same as things said in person. And by stepping in and preventing that young man from seeing her daughter. Jane had unintentionally hurt Emily.
But even as she had managed to stop herself from voicing the question of why Emily had not called Derek. It seemed that it had been clearly written across her face, because Emily answered it either way.