Thursday arrived, and although Alex still hadn’t heard from Jacob, she was doing her best to distract herself. She was suddenly the cleaning lady, the chef and Chloe’s mum; Nina kept saying to her Alex I have nothing to do please stop doing all my work. She just needed to stay busy that was all. It was nearing lunchtime and Chloe had gone down for her nap. Alex was organising her lunch when the phone rang. She ran towards it praying that it would be Jacob. She felt very pathetic, waiting on his call like this. Feeling like a teenager all over again. She took two deep breaths so as not to appear too eager then picked up the phone.
“Hello?”
“Alex, it’s Maria.”
“Oh.” Sounding disappointed, and then quickly recovering, so she didn’t offend Maria. “Hi Maria, it’s so good to hear from you.”
