The Blooming Flower (on hold)

Chapter 11

  On Friday Allison was still thinking about the woman at the adoption agency. She just couldn't shake the feeling that this woman was going to adopt her child. She didn't know why. That morning she had talked to Emily on the phone who had called to check up on her and see how everything was going and how her appointment went.

"It went well," said Allison. With the main thing on her mind from the appointment being the woman, she couldn't help but mention it to Emily. She hoped she wouldn't think she was crazy or at least not openly express her opinion of Allison's insanity for having such a thought like Todd had done. How rude that was.

"Are you sure?" said Emily much to Allison's relief for proving her anticipation of ridicule to be superfluous. Of course, she couldn't expect Emily to come out and say she was right. Her question, although more of a gentler approach to the situation as opposed to Todd's outright declaration that she was crazy, implied her skepticism of the matter.

"Yeah," said Allison. "Something in my heart is just telling me she's the one."

"Well, don't you want to at least consider other families?" Emily asked her, only trying to rationalize Allison's opinion. "I mean you've barely even started the adoption process. You filled out some forms, that's it."

"Yeah, I'll consider other families because the agency's going to match me with families that match the criteria of the ideal family I want for my baby, which includes having a child in the family already. But something tells me this woman and her husband are going to be one of those families even though I don't think they have a biological child or any children at all because they looked to be in their early to mid-thirties, and clearly a couple in their thirties would not have a biological child old enough to stay home alone."

"Well, maybe they adopted a child who is a teenager or they got a baby sitter?" suggested Emily.

"No," said Allison. "They would have brought their child along. It would be his baby brother or sister they're adopting."

"But maybe they're not ready to meet potential children to adopt yet," said Emily. "I would think they wouldn't need to bring their kid along for all the paper work and such."

"Yeah," said Allison, finally agreeing. "But if they don't have any children I wonder why I have such a strong instinct that they're the future parents of my baby?"

"I don't know," said Emily. "But just take it one day at a time. You'll get there."

Allison sighed. "I know, but it's killing me to know. I need to know if these are the people who are going to raise my child."

"I know, honey," said Emily. "You'll find out soon enough. Just be patient."

"Okay," said Allison, letting out another sigh of stress.

She thought about going for her morning run which she hadn't done yet. Plus she had skipped it yesterday because she had slept in, and she didn't have time to go running before they had to leave for the appointment. She said she was going to start running at night, but lately she had been unusually tired, a symptom of pregnancy. Plus it was stressing her out, causing her to be fatigued. So, with a much needed stress-relieving jog on her mind, Allison decided to let Emily go.

"Hey Em," she said after the moment of silence filled with her thoughts of going for a run. "I want to go for my run now. So can I talk to you later?"

"Sure girl," said Emily. "In fact, I order you to get off the phone now and get your ass outside and get to running. You need the exercise."

They both laughed. "Yeah," said Allison. "Especially since I had to skip out on it yesterday because I had to go to my appointment."