Tina woke and found her beautiful son still sleeping and the divorce papers signed lying next to her. She sighed, it was over, she expected more fight out of him, but it’s obvious he didn’t care. She got dressed for work and got Jackson ready for another day at school. The school year was ending rapidly and it was obvious that she was going to have a tough time finding adequate care for Jackson without Eric’s help.

After she dropped Jackson off, she drove quietly to work. They were both supposed to work that day and it made her anxious. She wasn’t sure what was going to happen and if he told anyone anything, but she decided to ignore it. She got upstairs and clocked in and noticed that Eric wasn’t assigned any patients.

“Hey Cheryl, why isn’t Eric assigned any patients? I could swear he was here today.”

“He called in today. Well he called in for the week,” she said and leaned in, “that’s not the only thing you should be worried about.”

“What do you mean?”

“Aimee’s been sayin lots of crazy things,” she whispered just as Tina saw Aimee peaking over Cheryl’s shoulders. As Tina connected eyes with her, she winked and Tina felt her face flush. She walked quickly to the locker room, catching eyes from every single nurse. She went to her locker and opened it and she heard talking coming from the bathroom stalls.

“Yeah, she was cheating on him,” she heard an older voice say and her heart stopped.

“No fucking way,” a younger voice responded, she knew those voices very well.

“Oh yeah, not only that but with a woman!”

“You’ve got to be kidding me!”

“She cheated with that therapist, Bette.”

“Well, kind makes you wonder what’s wrong with him, ya know? Was he no good in bed or was he an asshole? What makes you cheat? Bette yet what makes you fall for a woman?”

“I don’t know, but if I was twenty years younger, I’d rock his world.”

“I’ll give Tina some credit, Bette is amazingly beautiful. If I was gay, I’d fuck her.”

Tina shoved all her things in her bag and slammed her locker shut. The laughing stopped and the doors opened. It was Jessica the nursing assistant and Joan one of their charge nurses who was talking about her. They were supposedly her good friends, but they weren’t being friends to her now.