After leaving her mother on the balcony, Lucy went straight to Tom's bedroom, wanting to be alone for a moment to catch her breath and put her emotion in check.
She shut the door behind her and walked into the bathroom. She stood in front of the mirror and stared back at her reflection for a moment.
She wasn't usually the confrontational type. She really hated misunderstandings and confrontations such as this, so why had she lost her temper and spoken so harshly to her mother?
Surprisingly it was the first time she was really showing an outward emotion and talking about her repressed grievance against her family, which she had always kept to herself, buried inside somewhere. In fact, she thought she had gotten over the feeling of hurt.
