Chapter 11 Who Are You

Alicia: Man I felt like crap, how could I have just pushed all those questions on him, and not see that it was clearly bothering him. I m such an idiot. He was pretty quiet on the way back, perfectly pleasant that is, but I stirred up something in him that both bothered him, and me. Why was he so afraid to talk about his family? I mean a lot of people have embarrassing things about their families that they don t like to talk about, but this was different. Whatever this is was hurting him a lot, and I don t know how to handle this situation. We were now walking in the park, hand in hand. I suppose I should be glad he still wants to touch me after what went on at the Bistro. We stopped off at a enclosed gazebo by a large water fountain. The park was pretty much vacant so we had the gazebo to ourselves. We sat on the bench in the gazebo just looking out the window at the water. You would think that things would seem kind of awkward between us not talking and just sitting th