Melinda sighed as she shut the door of her jeep. She had not changed the paint or anything, since he slipped into a coma 2 year ago. The only change was a car seat in the backseat. She walked into the house and her young daughter walked over taking each step with care, so she would not fall over. When she finally reached her mom, she had a big smile plastered across her face.
"Hi Alexis, how is my special little girl today?" she asked as the sitter gathered her stuff and left.
Alexis just smiled and held up her favorite book and offered it to Melinda.
"Alright, we can read the story" Melinda sighed as she opened the book she read this story at least two times a day.
Alexis was soon falling asleep sucking on her thumb and Melinda placed in the playpen and went to start dinner. Her mind raced to thoughts of him as she made his favorite meal. Jim did not even know that he had a daughter or that his mother had passed away. When she was done, she cut up her daughter's dinner, placed it on her tray, went, got the half-asleep Alexis of her playpen, and placed in her high chair.
"Alexis, don't forget to chew" she said, as her daughter stuffed a big piece of chicken in her mouth. She knew her daughter was a miracle after being told she had miscarriage just weeks before. Melinda reached over and cut the pieces even smaller and by the time dinner was over, Alexis had more on her "finding nemo" shirts that had gotten into her mouth.
"You need a bath" she picked her up and walked out of the room. As she walked away, you could see she had set two adult plates on the table, as if he was going to come home late from work and share a late night meal with her.
After, she finished cleaning her daughter and got into night cloths. She placed her in her crib with an assortment of toys and storybooks for to play with before she drifted off to sleep. Melinda walked back downstairs and ate alone she often thought of calling Rick or Delia, over so she has some company. She did some basic cleaning, did some paperwork for the store, and went to bed. She cried herself to sleep again as she had every night for the past two years.
She must of drifted to sleep because she woke up to the phone ringing at 11pm.
"Hello" she yawned.
"Melinda, this is Grandview hospital. I was hoping you could come over, we have some news about your husband" Melinda jumped up and put back the jeans and top, she had on before and grabbed her bag. She ran into the nursery and carefully picked her sleep daughter and raced of to the hospital.