EMILY
Rita began to tell me about how she felt about Rachel getting married. She was, without a doubt, happy that Rachel was soon going to get married, but she couldn't understand why her own boyfriend wasn't even entertaining the idea of tying the knot with her.
"Keep it real with me, isn't it ridiculous?" she blurted out, tightening her grip on the spoon in her hands. "Why stay with me all this time if he doesn't have plans for us to get married?"
"Rita, you don't know that he doesn't want to make things official. Perhaps he just needs some time to think."
"I would know that if only he would talk about it for even a bloody minute." She placed a palm on her head, saying, "I don't understand him sometimes, and it's worse that he never wants to talk about anything. Look, his mouth will
