Emmeline laughed. She'd gone and made a mess of things further by being rude is what had happened next. And then he'd gotten mad. Whether what she had said had been true or not, she didn't really know. She'd left. That had been it.

"I called him a liar," she said with a simple shrug, "There had been other girls throughout the school year so clearly if he really did like me I was nothing special." And that hurt. He knew personally how she'd felt about Mr. MacFusty. Knew how insecure she'd been about it all so if he really had had feelings, he'd gone about it all wrong. He should have known better.

"And then I told him that he only said that cause he thought working class girls were easy skirts," she said, finally looking away from him, her cheeks blushing, "That he probably thought if he got me with child he could just pay me to go away and that would be that." She'd been cruel and while she hoped it wasn't actually true of him, that Handsome was better than that, she couldn't help that part of her mind that thought it was true.

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