Only I, Callen, and Maisy are left on the corridor. I walk towards them, remembering what Callen has just said, and the look of guilt on his face.
"Chelsea, listen..."
Pah!
The loud slap jars in the empty corridor. Maisy's gently touching Callen's face with distress. She questions me, "Chelsea! How can you slap him? Are you crazy?"
"You made me!" I growl at them. "I didn't ask for any money in the divorce, so why are you hassling my mom? Are you still human?"
"Callen, tell me, did my mother ever do anything wrong to you? Did she?"
Callen lowers his head and doesn't say anything. A rebuttal from him now would make me despise him and disgust him.
Maisy stands in front of him and say, "It's your mother's fault! She went too far! We were just defending ourselves."
"What did my mother do?"
"I'm really sorry. I met your mom on the street and she mentioned our divorce. I thought she
knew everything so I told her the truth. I didn't mean to hurt her." Callen explains.
"She beat Callen in the street! I couldn't ignore it so I started arguing with her. She called me a b*tch, so I said you deserved to be abandoned. Am I wrong?"
She talks shamelessly about what has happened, and I hear In & Out from her.
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