Down in Dumps

Aurora POV:

I stayed in the car until the tears stopped and I was able to act with some sort of normalcy. I checked my eyes in the mirror to make sure they weren’t red. I didn’t want to alarm my mother. I wondered miserably how long i could keep it from her, she would be horrified if she found out about the baby.

With a forced smile, I called to my mother as i walked in. She looked up from her soap opera and waved and smiled absently, going right back to the action on the screen.

It was a reprieve. I went into the bedroom and changed into loose jeans and a sweatshirt. I did lay down for a few minutes, certain that mother wouldn’t be moved by a hurricane until her program went off.

I had to make a decision, and quickly. Now i was dead sure i couldn’t hop on a bus and leave town. It would be impossible to move mother right now. I couldn’t leave because my mother wouldn’t survive being uprooted. She loved Jacobsville.

I had one temporary course of action, to stay at Leo Jordan ranch an