“Girl, what is happening? This had been going on for too long already. Do you still...” she stopped herself but then she continued anyway, thinking she might as well say what she wanted to say “Do you still blame him for what happened with the baby?”

Marissa looked at her sharply. “Blame him?” she said consideringly. “I have never really blamed him for that, you know,” she said slowly, as if she were just coming to that realization herself. “It wasn’t really about that.”

“Then what else could it be? Believe me, I know I would blame Simon plenty if he ever had a girlfriend who tried that on me....