Me: Good morning.
She: (no response)
She: (No response)
She’s friend: She’s depressed.
Me: Depressed! Why is she depressed?
He: Yeah, why is she depressed?
She’s friend: Grades and mind your own business.
Me: Grades? She’s doing great in here.
She’s friend: Yeah, but not in Child Development. She’s afraid she’s going to fail.
She: (Crying)
He: I thought there was no crying in Art.
Me: How do you fail Child Development?
He: Good question!
She’s friend: First they have to protect an egg, then they have to wear that pregnant belly thing, and the last part is that they have to take the baby with a computer brain home for a weekend. They have to feed it and change it and play with it, all based on the computer.
She: The baby! (More crying)
Me: The baby?
He: Who’s having a baby?
Second He: You’re having a baby?
She: I killed the baby!
Me: You killed the baby?
She’s friend: Yep, she killed the baby.
Me: How in the world did that happen?
She’s friend: Well, we went out Friday night and we picked up our friends and there wasn’t room in the car for the baby in the car seat so we put the baby and the car seat in the trunk. And then we went to a movie.
Me: The trunk?
He: What were you thinking?
Me: And you forgot to feed it?
She: I forgot it for the whole weekend!
Me: What?
He: Baby killer!
She’s friend: For the whole weekend…until Sunday night. She thought she’d lost it at first. She couldn’t find it.
He: Did you put out an Amber Alert?
She: I would be a terrible mother! (more crying)
He: Don’t you get like executed for killing a baby? Did it starve to death or what?
She: Shut up! Just shut up!
Me: What did your teacher say?
She’s friend: She doesn’t know about the trunk. She’s having the computer checked out. She said she never saw anything like it. The battery might have died.
He: First the baby, then the battery.
Me: Sounds like a tough weekend. Especially for the baby.
He: If there was an old water bottle in the trunk and some like peanuts or something, do you think the baby would have survived?
She: Shut up! Just shut up!
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