True, I'd been nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous--to have the conversation with him. I knew he was going to think I sounded crazy. I knew he was going to think I was crazy. But I'd nervously fretted about my feelings for him for years. My nerves had sharpened my senses--not destroyed or dulled them. And above all was my ability to listen. I'd heard all the reasons why we shouldn't be together. I know I'd given every excuse in the world, every excuse from heaven to hell as to why we couldn't be together.

But my feelings wouldn't go away, so. how does that make me crazy? Listen! Sanely and calmly, I'll tell you the whole story.** Tell-Tale is a contemporary romance inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart **.