"It looked bad amongst their circle of friends, colleagues a societal gossip mongers." Pippa looks up at him then, brow furrowed. He's made more than one comment about time and past events that Pippa knows are far from recent.
There's a question niggling at the back of her mind, but she doesn't quite want to ask it of him. Maybe afraid of the answer even now. So...
"And it wasn't just that I was stupid enough to...well, it was that I wouldn't do as I was told. If I'd terminated it, gone back to school, been a good little girl..." She shook her head, clearly disgusted with the idea even now. "The whole thing made me realize that I didn't want to be like them. I wanted something else out of life. I wanted a life."
She brushed her fingers over the back of his hand as she spoke, "Your mother, your parents really, sound like wonderful people. Caring people."
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Date: 2008-10-02 07:03 pm (UTC)There's a question niggling at the back of her mind, but she doesn't quite want to ask it of him. Maybe afraid of the answer even now. So...
"And it wasn't just that I was stupid enough to...well, it was that I wouldn't do as I was told. If I'd terminated it, gone back to school, been a good little girl..." She shook her head, clearly disgusted with the idea even now. "The whole thing made me realize that I didn't want to be like them. I wanted something else out of life. I wanted a life."
She brushed her fingers over the back of his hand as she spoke, "Your mother, your parents really, sound like wonderful people. Caring people."