A New Love is BØRN

Show Time

Hope

The kids are all having fun. They're eating and talking. The people flooded the doors as I hoped they would, so many potential families! Everything is working fine. Registration is over, and it went well. The photo booth is running but sadly it will have to be self operated as the photographer never showed up.

I heard the performer is here though. The curtain should open any minute.

One of the sweet little girls who had been at the center for over six years tugged on my dress. I looked down at her. She was smiling from ear to ear. She was getting adopted. She told me that her new mommy and daddy were going to take very good care of her. I cried. I had been with her since the day I began working here.

Everything is going as planned.

I wiped my tears and the curtain opened. Then I see him. BØRNS is on stage. Garret is on stage. The super star I thought I'd never meet again is on stage. Suddenly I'm worried about my hair and my makeup and my dress.

I run to the back as he starts to sing. I hear the words, " I had a different impression
of you." How true.

I'm in the kitchen that is unseen from the stage. I feel so desperate and hopeless as I try to fix my hair by looking into a spoon.

I can't go back out there.