92
Emotionally Bendy Kathearine A collective aww echoed in the kitchen. The three heads of my roommates were pressed together like the fates over the sonogram picture. vio, arin, and Melanie had been waiting for me when I walked in the door feeling shaken and unsure—two feelings that brought me enough distress to have me questioning everything, even my breakfast choice, which sat sour in my stomach. I sat at the island in the kitchen across from the three of them, hands clammy and clasped in my lap. “It’s just a little bean,” arin cooed. “So cute.” “It doesn’t even have a face,” I noted. They gave me simultaneous flat looks. “What? It doesn’t.” “But it will,” Melanie said. I sniffed rather than respond. “How did it go? How’d Matt take it all?” vio asked. “Better than I did. I bla
- Writer
