A Best Friend's Betrayal

Lights off, Lights on....

"What's up with you?", Callie said coming up to Miranda.

Miranda closed the chart walking away.

"Umm okay...we ignoring each other now?", Callie said following her.

"Drop it Callie!"

Callie stared at Miranda with her arms crossed. "Fine. I was trying to have a Sabbatical and I needed Ben to sorta leave the house."

"What you mean leave the house?"

"I asked him to leave until my stress is under control."

"BAILEY!"

"Don't yell at me.....what?"

"Why would you put your husband out of yall house. He needs to be there supporting you & helping you eliminate stress."

"Now you sound like him", she rolled her eyes.

"Because we're right unlike you who has clearly lost her mind."

"No Ben is who has lost his mind by letting a stranger come and live with us for a while who he hasn't spoken to since I don't know when."

"Both of yall need help", Callie said walking away.

After Miranda's appy she headed to the cafeteria for a snack. "Hello", she said answering Ben's call.

"Hey I was wondering if you picked out Tuck's costume yet?"

"For what?"

"Halloween Miranda. He wants to go trick-or-treating ...... or is he not allowed to do that anymore because it'll stress you out?", he said annoyed.

"Bye Benjamin....", she said hanging up the phone pissed at his comment.

Ben called back twice before Miranda answered the phone. "What I'm at work Benjamin?"

"Look I'm sorry, I'm just upset with you for not caring enough about us to involve me in things about you and your health. Can we at least take him together? I'll figure out the rest."

"And I'm upset with you for not understanding my point of view and giving me the space I need."

"Miranda that's not space. That's a divorce!"

"And what do you call putting your wife and Tuck in danger?"

"How are yall in danger Miranda?"

"JAMES!", she yelled forgetting she was in the café full of people. 

"Can we do this for Tuck or not?"

"Fine. I have to go. Bye", she said hanging up and going to go sit down since she didn't have a surgery for another hour or so.

At the end of the day Miranda was exhausted and couldn't wait to go home and shower. She walked up to the daycare and the lights were low, so she figured the kids were sleep. "Bailey hi....did Tuck forget something?"

"What? Huh? What you mean?", she looked into the window. "Where is my son?"

"He's gone. He was already picked up hours ago."

"HOURS AGO!....HA...okay I get it, it's Halloween time and yall like scaring people, but this shit right here ain't funny. Where the hell is my child?", Miranda got louder.

"He was picked up by a James...it says here on the sign out sheet."

Miranda almost hit the nurse, but she had to relax. "Okay I see you are upset and maybe forgot th-..."

"I didn't forget shit...."

"But your husband called and verified that he relied the message to you about having James to pick up Tuck for Halloween shopping. They were meeting at the mall and-..."