Imagination

Never in her wildest imagination did Sally think that she was going to see Eliza and not want to throttle her. But things had changed, and she was standing in front of her and just smiled at her nemesis.

Eliza returned her smile — but what else would she do with her daughter there? Sally did not know the dark-haired woman she was with, but she knew that she was the woman that Oscar was seeing. Sally was not as close with Oscar as she had been, because she still thought so much about Chloe when she was with him. 

But then Sally looked at Bibi. Eliza’s little girl was so pretty, she looked like her mother but had a babydoll face. When Chloe was a little girl like that, Sally was not with her all of the time. Her parents had raised Chloe which explained some of the reasons why they were not as close as she had wanted them to be. Chloe had still been her daughter though, and she had had a relationship with her and was closer to her before she died than she had ever been.

It still made her tear up when she thought about her daughter.

Right then Bibi walked over to her with a flower. Eliza looked with soft eyes at her daughter. Sally squatted so she could be face to face with Bibi, unable to resist herself from hugging the little girl. She felt the tears come to her so she exhaled and let go of Bibi. Bibi took her hand, and Sally looked at Eliza who just kept smiling at her daughter.

Sally squeezed Bibi’s hand. She was so emotional, and Eliza could know how much her daughter had changed her mind. Sally was at a crossroads, because never in her wildest imagination had she imagined that she would be pregnant. Pregnant and deeply in love with the father of her child, but not sure that she should have the baby.

Their baby.

She did not want to trap Calvin and make him think that he had to be with her–that she was trying to trap him. Every time she had gotten pregnant, it had not been the time for her to have a baby. With Chloe she was too young, and now it was too early in her relationship even though she loved him to tell him that she was pregnant.

But hugging Bibi, and bonding with her let her know that she could not give her baby up. That she had to have this baby, and it did not matter what Calvin wanted because she was ready to be a mother again. How could she have looked a gift horse in the mouth? That she was able to get pregnant again, that she had another chance? Sally put a hand on her stomach and she felt blessed.

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