Such a Pretty Face by Cathy Lamb

Author:Cathy Lamb [Lamb, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781616646516
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Eileen’s father called me later and asked what happened.

I told him everything.

By the time I was done, he was crying.

“I don’t know what to do, Stevie. She’s so unhappy. She’s angry all the time. She’s making all my employees miserable, I’ve had three of my best people leave in the last three months. Twelve are threatening to quit, most of them women. The morale is horrible. And yet, if I let her go, I think it’ll kill her. But my company…”

We talked for more than an hour and then I had to garden my way back to mental health. I changed clothes, grabbed a bucket, and started weeding. I threw a few handfuls of weeds into the bucket.

Why am I such a wimp with Eileen? Am I afraid of her anger? Do I feel in some inexplicable way that I deserve her comments? Do I feel guilty about the weight loss when she hasn’t experienced the same? Is she a link to my past and I can’t let go of the link, as I’ve had to let go of other people, however unwillingly? Do I stay friends with her for purely altruistic reasons, which is that I am her only friend, and I think she would implode if I walked away? Is that a good-enough reason?

I have lost so much weight and it has been a wondrous miracle, but I’m still trying to find myself, trying to find the new Stevie.

She has been lost for so, so long, and I need to find her.

Did this new Stevie want to be friends with Eileen?

I pulled out a mongo-sized weed and tossed it in the bucket.

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