It has been five days now… She has been waiting for him to return, but there’s still no sign of him coming back to her. All this time, his bodyguard has been picking Penelope up and dropping her off, except today when she had to go on a club outing, so Karen came to pick her up at the apartment herself. She then asked Mackie’s bodyguard to head back since she was with Karen. The plan for this activity includes a two-day, one-night stay in Jamaica Bay. The club decided to have salt marsh restoration, because it’s easy to travel to and not far from New York. This is one of the university activities she couldn’t avoid, but it’s good to have something else to do. It would help her not think too much, as she had been preoccupied with thoughts about pregnancy and waiting for Mackie to come to

