“Arthur, you asked me for photographs of my face.”
“I thought you were becoming more comfortable with yourself.”
“Was that your decision to make?”
“I didn’t mean to hurt you.”
He looked down.
Helen stood quietly near the doorway.
“I saw him take that box out this afternoon,” she revealed. “He’d been rehearsing what to tell you. I warned him that surprising you with those photographs was cruel.”
Helen stood quietly near the doorway.
Arthur looked at her.
“I was going to explain.”
“You’d already had three dates to explain,” Helen replied.
I turned back to Arthur.
“Did you ask for those pictures to make sure I was the girl in this photograph?”
“I was going to explain.”
“At first, I wanted to be certain.”
“And afterward?”
He swallowed.
“I liked seeing you happy. I thought perhaps I could help undo some of what happened.”
“And afterward?”
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