Assumpta hated the long dull drive to and from the bank, which was situated just outside Kildargen. She was like a butterfly, easily bored if she was in one place too long, and that was even more the case when she was driving. The roads which gradually wound down the mountainside were clear, so she put her foot down. Peter was on her mind, she knew what he was like, he would be worrying himself silly and she wanted to be home waiting for him, when he returned from St Joseph's for what was likely to be the last time.
She smiled when the familiar guitar introduction was played on the radio. She recognised is as 'Big Yellow Taxi' by Joni Mitchell and turned up the volume. She loved this song due to the fact it took her back to her care free days as a student, when every radio station in Ireland overplayed the already well known song.
Assumpta wasn't a big singer, she would never sing in public but she did enjoy attempting to sing when she was on her own and like when she used to hear this song, she felt free. She was no longer trapped in a 'loveless' marriage, she was loved by the kindest man she had ever known and she was expecting his child. Life couldn't get any better for Assumpta Fitzgerald.
"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got'till it's gone. They paved paradiseand put up a parking lot." She sang loudly so she could hear herself over the deafening music, tapping the steering wheel in time to the track, as she drove towards Ballykissangel.