Chapter 10: Time to Think

A few days had passed, and Anna still felt uneasy about breaking it off with Ethan. She’d been distracted every day at work and felt like she wasn’t giving her students her all because she just couldn’t focus. Kelly had noticed a difference in her, but Anna had avoided talking to her friend so she wouldn’t have to get a lecture about breaking up with Ethan.

She got home that night and went through the motions of making dinner, cleaning up around the house, and trying to catch up on her reading. But later that night, she had read the same page twice and still couldn’t get a handle on the story.

“Well, this is useless,” she said aloud to herself, slamming her book closed. “Did I do the wrong thing? Or was it the right thing? How am I supposed to know the difference?’