Tracey felt a knot in her stomach forming. Why do people seem to think that she needed some kind of help with life? "That's where you're wrong. Think about being raised a certain way, where you're pressured to live up to a name. That if you ruin it, you ruin everything, you ruin your family. It's the same thing with me, Mandy. If your mother gave up her name for love, I'm not giving mine up to destroy my family," Tracey explained, keeping her voice neutral. It was an odd feeling to go from anger to plain frustration. "I'm loyal to my family. I love them, as much as your mother probably loved your father," she continued, letting out a breath, a tired and yet stern look on her face.
It made her think of her priorities, and how maybe she owed it to her mother and father to tell them the truth. That she wasn't going to get married. That she owed it to Zach to finally be with him out in the open. Both were so new to her that it scared her. But maybe she owed it to them.