I Bought Lunch for a Pregnant Mother with a Small Boy – The Next M0rning, My Yard Was Filled with Baby Cribs, and I Screamed When I Looked Inside One

I stayed at the hospital until a nurse gently told me there was nothing else I needed to do.

Nothing else.

I hated those words.

There should always be something a mother can do.

I couldn’t stand the thought of sitting inside a taxi with someone asking where I was going, so decided to walk home.

Halfway there, I passed Helen’s favorite café.

She used to meet me there every Thursday.

« You’re predictable, » I’d tease.