Helena always was so jealous when her girlfriends where picked up by there parents every holiday.

Helena remembered when she was a little girl she waited for her mother at the window near the school entrance, all the other kids where supposed to be picked up at 5 ‘o clock by there parents.

Helena wore her best dress and wore 2 pigtails so she’d look her best for her mother.

Although she didn’t see her mother that often she did look up to her, she was the one a lot of people wanted to be around with, just sometimes it made her jealous for having to share her mother with so many other people.

At 5 most of the kids where picked up, the 15 minutes after more parents started to appear and at 5:30 all the kids where gone, only Helena sad alone near the window waiting for her mother to come pick her up.

6 o’clock came and she was still staring outside where it started to rain.

One of the teachers came and asked her if she wanted anything to drink, but she didn’t want anything she just stared at the window at the rain falling outside waiting for her mother to pick her up at that point she hadn’t seen her mother for 6 months.

At 7 her favourite teacher Mrs Shelley came to ask if she wanted dinner but Helena wasn’t hungry.

She heard one of the teachers talk to her mother on the phone and heard him ask where she was and than heard him repeat New York, she just forgot to pick her up. She also overheard them saying her mother tried to buy them off with extra money, but the teacher replied it wasn’t about the money that money couldn’t buy her daughter’s disappointment away. Although she was only 5 when this happened Helena at that point already found out some of the hard sides of her mother Peggy Peabody.

That night her teacher Mrs Shelley put her to bed, which normally wasn’t her job but she felt sorry for little Helena who was already so many times disappointed in her life.

Mrs Shelley told Helena her mother didn’t forget her she was just very busy helping the people in New York, and she would try to make it in 2 days.

Helena just stared at the wall, she didn’t look sad but Mrs Shelley knew even though this girl was only 5 years old she had already been disappointed too many times in her life.

Mrs Shelley red her a story before putting her to bed she did see Helena enjoyed that and in the morning Helena could have breakfast with the teachers she liked that it made her feel special in a good way.

Helena smiled when she thought of Mrs Shelley, she was a really nice teacher one of the few that actually really cared about the children. Sometimes Helena just wanted to go back to her old school just to see if Mrs Shelley was still there and as nice as she always was.

Now Helena didn’t feel disappointed any longer when her mother decided to not show up again, most of those times she went home with one of the other girls or used her credit-card her mother gave her to buy useless stuff.

Helena laughed at that last thought and went to sleep