You have actually lost weight, mama." Pearl said, stretching out to feel her mother's right arm for flesh.
"Oh, no I've not." Maggie waved her away with hands covered in blue stained gardening gloves. "You've been listening to your grandmum. If I don't gorge myself four times a day she's convinced I'm going to waste away. As it is, I stole three sugar cookies on my way out here and I expect them to pop out on my thighs any moment." She said smiling as she continued to work.
Pearl smiled back at her for a moment and she opened her mouth like she wanted to speak, but She changed her mind and closed it.
Pearl realized that she had come all the way to tell her mum about Derek, and she remembered that there had been reports of her dad and his wife having a baby together. She couldn't help
