Too Late To Beg
When did you become a woman sitting on a verandah, pregnant, divorced, possibly carrying the child of either of two men, neither of whom you could see yourself building a life with?
What would Poppy say?
I imagined Poppy's face. The way her eyebrows would shoot up. The way she would let out the most undignified noise. The way she would absolutely, without hesitation, pour both of us very large glasses of something inadvisable and demand the entire story from the beginning.
I needed her now. Badly.
I reached into my pocket for my phone, intending to turn it on and call her.
Footsteps approached on the pavement.
I looked up with a hopeful smile, expecting to see Poppy returning from wherever s