Fool For Love
$10,000.
What could she buy with $10,000?
Most people when pregnant unexpectedly typically had the baby and kissed that kind of money goodbye with every diaper box and stained onesie.
No one had ever made money and given up the responsibility of a child before. It seemed like an easy choice for the teen.
She could buy that sweet cherry red, used Mustang. Or a whole wardrobe of up to the minute, trend setting clothes. All the girls would be so jealous of her! She wouldn't be saddled with an 18 year regret.
A still, small voice whispered to her.
What about the baby? Abby, her precious Abby.
This place Jesse wanted to bring her child to was certainly not legal. Who pays for a baby with cash? A human life shouldn't be so easily bought for.
She wandered around aimlessly, lost in her thoughts.
Sam had calmed her soul in the freezing winter. Abby had slept deeply and contentedly on her shoulder. Her innocence perfectly protected by her mother.
As it should be.
The clean lines of a white, well-maintained building caught her eye.
Her child would be safe here. Given to a well meaning caretaker. A better mother than she could ever be.
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The older woman glanced at the tiny bundle in her arms. Who was she to adopt a baby? Her own child turned out wild, and was currently lost in her sight. What right did she have to mess up another life?
A familiar gooey smile, and sparkling eyes, so much like the one she had lost.
No, she knew what she had done wrong with her daughter. Perhaps she could atone for her sins. It wouldn't do to punish a baby for her mistakes.
"Abby, such a pretty name. Your mother must have loved you very much."
And here's when I began writing again after a two year break. This episode had so many coincidences. The grandma actually adopting her granddaughter, running into several angels throughout Sara's life. I'm laughing at Joey Lawrence being the deadbeat boyfriend. I liked the girl who played Sara especially as an attorney. Wouldn't we all be so lucky to have law school being financed by an angel.
