That night I went home and cried more…Alice left me a note stating that she and the girls would be out at Milk…I wasn’t in no party mood and I damn sure wasn’t about to be…I wanted to be alone and I was happy that Alice picked this day to go out…I undressed and showered…Alice made pasta earler and left the pot on the stove for me…I was hungry and happy to be eating for two…with each bite I placed inside of my mouth I thought about the baby down below…

I tried not to think about Bette or what she said…the stunt that she tried to pull hours before made me sick to the stomach…I put the remaining food left on my plate in the fridge…I went into the livingroom and made up my bed…I layed down and the sand man took over me…Next thing you know I was sound asleep…

ALICE’S HOUSE…NEXT MORNING

KNOCK! KNOCK!

The sound of someone knocking at the front door woke me up the next morning…I went over to the front door and peeked through the peek hole…there was a guy standing there with roses in his hands…she opened the door out of excitement and the guy said…

“hi…I have a delivery for a Ms. Tina Kennard”

I smiled with butterflies shooting through my stomach..I said

“that’s me”

the gentlemen before me asked…

“could you sign here above the dotted line?”

he gave me the pen and I signed for the flowers…I asked out of curiosity…

“who are they from?”

the gentlemen said…

“I don’t know…there’s a card that came with it…”

he hands me the flowers and I say

“thankyou”

and I close the door behind him…I head back to the couch and sit Indian style…I anxiously open the card and read who it’s from…it’s from Bette…I toss the card back into the envelop and throw it on the table…I sit red faced and upset…what does she think she could do just send me flowers and make me feel better?…boy did I huff and puff

Alice enters the house moments later…she heads into the livingroom…she says

“goodmorning Tina…ooh who gave you flowers?”

I am so aggrevated…I know she knows who sent me the flowers…she just wants to get on my damn nerves…she comes around the couch and sits down next to me…I respond saying…