#Chapter 59 - Old Problems

I was mortified beyond words. I found myself shifting and swaying from side to side as a massive haze fogged my mind. I, unknowingly, rolled back and forth on my heels till I was forced to reach out and grasp the table in front of me to keep myself from falling. On top of the mental haziness I was suffering, my stomach was rolling and flipping, causing an awful wave of nausea to come over me. ‘This can’t be real...Surely, this was nothing more than a horrible joke...’ I tried telling myself. My shaking hands scrolled through the articles on James' tablet, waiting for the words ‘just kidding!’ to pop up at the end. But no. Everything I was gaping at was true. Even the pictures that were attached to some of these articles were, in fact, real. I could recall posing for some of them when Peter and I were still together. Images of us sitting close in a booth at one of the local places in town, holding hands, smiling at one another with intimacy and hopes of a bright future we