Thirty-nine
Zoey’s sewing. I didn’t know she could. A lemon-coloured baby suit is draped across her
knees. She threads the needle, one eye shut, pulls the thread through and rolls a knot between licked
fingers. Who taught her that? For minutes I watch her, and she sews as if this is how it’s always
been. Her blonde hair is piled high, her neck at a tender angle. She bites her bottom lip in
concentration.
‘Live,’ I tell her. ‘You will live, won’t you?’
She looks up suddenly, sucks bright blood from her finger. ‘Shit!’ she says. ‘I didn’t know
you were awake.’
It makes me chuckle. ‘You’re blooming.’
‘I’m fat!’ She heaves herself upright in the chair and thrusts her belly at me to prove it. ‘I’m
as big as a bear.’
I’d love to be that baby deep inside her. To be small and healthy.
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