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She's well aware that she's going to have to let a number of people know about her plans, and that fairly soon. Something as large as relocating from Toronto, Canada, to Glastonbury, England, is going to need some explanation. A lot of explanation, more than likely.

Telling people things that they need to know but don't want to hear is never going to get easier, she knows. By now she's even come to accept that.

She's been putting it off anyway.

It's early enough on a Saturday that the coffee shop isn't crowded at all. Kim's sitting at a table near the door, waiting.

Absently, she glances up at the clock. The train should be arriving soon.

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"Me, either."

No one will ever know the effort that it takes her to keep her words steady, to keep tears from starting to her eyes.

No one save that part of Ysanne which lies within her soul, as close as her own aching heart.

"For what it's worth, I'm sorry, too."

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"It's worth something."

She doesn't say what it's worth, though.

She doesn't even know what it's worth.

Meg pauses again in the doorway, and without turning around adds, "You have twenty-four hours to tell Mom and Dad and then I'm going to.

"Good-bye, Kim."

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"Go ahead and tell them tonight. You'll need to explain why you're coming back early, anyway."

Kim's tone is coolly precise, and somehow distant.

"And after you do that, tell them to call me."

A single beat.

"I'll see you later, Meghan."

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"I will, then. God forbid you tell anyone anything yourself, Kim," Meghan says.

"And, no. I don't think you will see me later."

The door doesn't slam behind her, but closes with a small, non-negotiable, decided click.

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"I tried," she says softly, into the still air of the empty room. "But you wouldn't listen."






The call she makes to her parents isn't a long one, all things considered. Long enough to warn them that Meghan's coming home early and why; long enough to tell them that they'd fought about the fact that she's taking a job in England, and that she'll tell them everything in person soon, and that she loves them.

After Kim hangs up the phone, she sits still, listening to the quiet in the kitchen for a few minutes, then sighs and goes back into the other room to pack.