She asked, a little too casually, if she could sit with Jane. Then, after they’d gotten their food, led her to the remotest table and without seeming to do it deliberately made sure they were sitting with their backs to the room.
Jane was now fully alert, if not yet alarmed. xxnx porn “Well, aren’t you supposed to go to confession if you’ve done something bad? Don’t they give you, what’s it called? Penance?”
Chrissy nodded again, her face hidden by her hair. Then she suddenly straightened up, turned to Jane and said, almost fiercely, “But that’s just Hail Marys and Our Fathers. It’s just words! It’s not enough!”
She said this last sentence loud enough so that heads turned at nearby tables, and this time she really did jump to her feet and storm out of the room.
But not before Jane had seen the tears in her eyes.
She sat by herself for the remainder of the lunch period, thinking. It was not a sudden thing; more like a gradual awakening from a shared dream. They stared wonderingly at each other–and a little sadly, as if searching for that lost piece of themselves in each other’s eyes.
