Plan B
“Alice was wildly excited. She had missed her friends over the summer. I was excited too. Alice had graduated from the tous petits section to the petits. My tiny girl was growing up. Moving from very small to small was progress, of a sort. I took her on a shopping trip to Villeneuve, the biggest town for miles around, where we bought new shoes, new slippers, pens and pencils, a new school bag, and a spare napkin.
‘I want to show Daddy,’ she said, all the way home. ‘Mine new bag. Mine new sandals.... Mine new slippers. Mine new pens.’ ‘Daddy will be back this afternoon,’ I assured her. I had not heard from Matt during the week, but I knew he was busy with work. He was trying to put the hours in, that week, to impress everyone enough to make them grant his request to work from home all the time, a request he was judiciously going to make the following week. School began the week after next. I hoped Matt would be at home full time by then, so that we could all turn up at school together for the first day of the academic year.MoreLess
‘I want to show Daddy,’ she said, all the way home. ‘Mine new bag. Mine new sandals.... Mine new slippers. Mine new pens.’ ‘Daddy will be back this afternoon,’ I assured her. I had not heard from Matt during the week, but I knew he was busy with work. He was trying to put the hours in, that week, to impress everyone enough to make them grant his request to work from home all the time, a request he was judiciously going to make the following week. School began the week after next. I hoped Matt would be at home full time by then, so that we could all turn up at school together for the first day of the academic year.MoreLess
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