"The number you are trying to reach is not in service. Please check the number and try again."
Angela huffed and hung up. "I've been getting this message all day. I haven't spoken to mom in almost a week and a half!"
James shrugged his shoulders. "She's busy with her new family… New wife, new kid…"
"Right?" Angela threw up her hands, "I mean, it was one thing when it was just Brenda but she literally adopted a new kid. What the fuck?"
"You know, you haven't been much better." James grumbled.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You haven't exactly been availing yourself to me either."
"First of all, you're the one who moved out of my apartment, you're the one who started taking the bus and didn't bother to tell me. Second of all, I'm not doing this here, get out of my office."
"Fine by me." James stood up and grabbed the mug off of her desk.
"Leave that."
He furrowed his brow and looked at the mug. "No, this is one of the mugs from the house."
"I know and I'll give it back. Leave it."
James narrowed his eyes at Angela and set the mug back down before huffing out.
"It was the right decision to tell Rusty about his father." Brenda said, entering the bathroom.
Sharon opened her eyes, sitting up a little straighter in the bathtub. "I know."
Brenda sat down next to the tub. "Do you want to talk about…?"
"No, I don't. My biological father doesn't deserve discussion." She turned, "and I know that Rusty's father probably doesn't even know about Rusty but I don't want it to be just another disappointment."
Brenda took Sharon's hand. "I know."
Just a short one, I know!