Caroline went home that afternoon looking troubled.
"Are you okay, daughter?" asked Thelma after seeing her daughter's problematic face passing the living room.
Caroline looked back at her mother. "I'm fine mother," she answered while gazing at baby Cathy sleeping in the crib beside her mother.
"Why did you go home early? Your friend didn't meet you at the mall?" Thelma kept asking.
"She called me, apologizing because she had an emergency at her house," she lied.
"Ah, okay." Thelma returned her attention to the soap opera she was watching on TV.
Caroline proceeds in climbing the stairs.
She went inside her bedroom, dropped her shoulder bag in the table, and starts pacing back and forth inside her room.
