Uniquely unhinged

“Well, aren’t mothers supposed to not have time for fashion statements? I do recall that my mother was ridiculously pretty yet she barely had time to find nice outfits since she was always busy with one thing or another” she said with a small smile as she remembered her own mother. She wondered what she would have done if she had come to her with little Lucien; probably she would have been an amazing grandmother.

“Well, they are to dream for, more than once friends told me that I should consider dropping medicine in order to become a baker. I have to say that some days I think that it would have been easier” she said with a chuckle. “So, payment in pie sounds like a fair deal to me”.

“I know. It’s funny, as a doctor I am close to grief. I have told terrible news to mothers, sons and other relatives. I have seen people die in my arms, sometimes with acceptance and others with anger yet none of that prepared me for this” she admitted, wondering if those people found comfort in her attempts to help them.

“Well I can’t wait for it, although I don’t think that I am the sort that turns heads around, not because of the looks but because of the attitude” she had never been prone to stand out, favoring to blend in the crowds.

“We have a deal” she said as she shook his hand. She couldn’t believe how lucky she was to have Alaric as a friend.