Cat (Wildflowers 4)

"She collapsed and he had to help her to bed.

She refused to go to a doctor even though she kept

bleeding. My father made it sound as if she wanted it

to happen. From the way he described it to me, I don't

think she wanted to have sex and I think she was

angry it had happened and she had become pregnant. I

don't know. To this day I can't imagine them making

love," I said. I guess I had a guilty look on my face.

Misty widened her eyes a little and-leaned toward me. "What?" she whispered.

"Nothing," I said quickly and looked away. My

heart had started racing again, beating almost like a

wild frantic animal in my chest.

"Come on. We've told you lots of things we

wouldn't dare tell anyone else," she urged.

"You know that's true, Cat," Star said. "We

hardly have a secret left."

"You can trust us," Misty said. "Really. Who

are we to talk about someone else, right?"

I looked back at the three of them. They did

look sincere.

My mother's warning returned, but she didn't

understand how important it was for me to get all this

out. Look what keeping the ugliness inside her had

done to her, I thought. I don't want that to happen to

me.

"After my father had told me the story of the

lost baby, I would spy on them," I confessed and

quickly added, "I was just very curious."

"So? What did you see?" Star followed. "How did you spy on them?" Misty asked. "All our bedrooms are upstairs, next to each

other. We have a two-story Spanish colonial with a