Chapter 3
"I'm not condoning what she did or saying I understand it, but Nessa.....she was absolutely gutted when you didn't come home from that court hearing - like 'sobbing over a picture of the two of you' gutted. She'd missed you so much and was so nervous and excited that you were finally coming home."
"Oh right, so it's my fault that she snogged some bloke?!"
"No! No, of course not. I'm not saying that. I'm just telling you what I saw of the situation. She was so sure....absolutely convinced that you went back to your Mum's because you didn't love her any more. And there was no talking her down from that."
"But why? That's so stupid! She'd just adopted Johnny for goodness sake! And did that video call on our anniversary just completely slip her mind?!"
"I don't know, Ness. I don't know how Charity's brain works. But by the next morning she'd decided you must have found someone better, someone that understood what you were going through and could look after you."
"You have got to be kidding me! What, she actually thought I would cheat on her?! And so she goes out and snogs the first person she can find as revenge?!"
"No, no I don't think it was like that. Tracy said she'd stormed out all worked up and upset and then when she told me what she'd done the next day she didn't really know how or why it had happened." She tries to recall the conversation. "She said that....she was in a bad place and he was being all arrogant and flirty and she let herself get sucked in by it."
"Oh right, well that's fine then! It wasn't her fault at all, was it?! I thought I actually meant something to her. That I was different. But clearly not. I mean if she can throw herself at the first person she finds then how many others could there have been?!"
"Ness, come on. Calm down. Look, you know what she's like by now - if she feels threatened she acts out, she lashes out....before she's properly thought things through."
"Yeah well, she can't keep doing that can she? Because people get hurt. I got hurt. She needs to grow up. And think about someone other than herself for once!"
Rhona sighs
"I've got to go and fetch Johnny" and with that she storms out of the house, slamming the door behind her.
Rhona puts her head in her hands and mutters to herself! "Well, that went well.."