Jessica wasn't so ready to forgive me, but I think she went along with it because Angela was so okay with it. We had made plans for the next evening. We were going to go to Port Angeles the next day after school. I knew my father would be ecstatic at this news, and I wasn't wrong. He hugged me immediately when I told him about it, and he told me how proud he was of me. Again, I felt shame course through me. My suffering was leading to the suffering of those around me, and I knew how unfair that was.