Pot Holes - Prolgue

Prologue..

　

Sara knew that life was always going to be a bumpy road; she just never realized that road was going to be filled with giant pot holes, car eating ones even. She sat there asking God why did he do this, why did he do this to her little girl as she looked over at the red haired angel, who was sitting on the floor coloring. The doctor’s office smelt just like a hospital did. Stale and overly clean. Sara and her husband, or soon to be ex-husband were listening to Dr. Cooper explain to them that their beautiful daughter, Cait, had Leukemia. All the painful testing they made their little girl go through, what ultimately was the last straw in the marriage, and sleepless nights finally came full circle and they received the answer they didn’t want to get.

“I’ll give you two a few days to recover from the news. Give you time to tell Cait and the rest of your family. You will be in for a long road of tests and treatment. I’ll send you with a packet of papers with more information and foundations that will help with what is going on. I know that this is going to be difficult and I can’t make any promises besides that I’m going to give your daughter my all. Is there anything besides the obvious I can do for you right now?” Dr. Cooper said, finally breaking Sara out of her trance. Sara glanced away from Cait, to Cody and finally back to the doctor.

Blinking back tears and shaking her head Sara said, “How exactly do you tell a 4 year old that they may die? That Mommy and Daddy can’t take away her pain?”

Dr. Cooper sighed, he had grown very fond Cait in the short amount of time that he had known her. The little girl had an infectious smile and such a bight outlook on life.

“Unfortunately, there is no right way to say it to her. She probably won’t understand most of it right now. And hopefully we caught this soon enough that we will be able to beat this before she has to understand.”

Sara nodded before standing up, Cody following behind her. She scooped up Cait, holding her a little tighter then she normally would have as they walked out the door. The elevator ride was silent except for the other people talking and Cody trying to make Cait smile. It was one thing that Sara was always envious about him, his ability to just push things back in his mind and cope on his own. “I signed and sent the divorce papers into the lawyer yesterday. I’ll be leaving on another job by the end of the week. I’ll make sure to text you the hotel number once I have it.” Cody said to her once they reached the parking garage. He said it such a matter of fact tone, like they didn’t just hear the worst possible news ever.

“Yeah, that’d be great. I’ll look over these papers and figure out where to go from there. Then figure out away to tell her and the rest of my family. I can assume you’re going to tell yours?” Sara replied, handing Cait over to him so they could say goodbye. She received a nod in return and watched blankly as he said good bye to their daughter and buckle her in the back of Sara’s jeep before heading off to his own vehicle. Staring at the back of the man who she once believed that she could depend on for the rest of the life, walk away without even a backwards glance made Sara suddenly feel like she was being swallowed up. Yeah this was one giant pot hole, car eating one even.