She loved wearing this color. It made her think of key lime pie, and she loved key lime pie. The school had called to tell her that her fourth child, Tucker, was sick. She knew he was sick all right. He was sick of school. He had done this every year since he’d started kindergarten, which was five years ago. At some point near the end of the school year, he would report some kind of complaint. One year he’d said he had typhoid fever. Another year he’d tried to convince the nurse he had tuberculosis, which triggered an uproar in the entire school. Truth was, Tucker could be pretty convincing. Now his pitifully frail voice came on the other end of the phone. “Hello.” “Tucker, what is wrong with you?” “I’m sick, Mama.” His fake cough blared through the earpiece. She pulled the phone away from her ear. “Well, this is what I have to tell you. If you are sick, this is what your week is going to look like. You ready to hear?” He hesitated. “Yeah.” “If I pick you up, you will go straight to your room and get in the bed.
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