I wished that Sara would become Cathy's Mommy and enjoy taking care of her little baby, Sara's eyes glazed over and when she returned to focus her attention was drawn to her little baby girl..
Cathy sat on the floor looking up at her daughter, her motor functions were that of a baby, her mind emotionally was innocent even though she had vague knowledge of once being an adult with a life a daughter and things that were so important to her, now they were out of focus they didn't matter, in her new found innocence the only thing that mattered was love, a full tummy and a clean bottom.
The weight of her existence gone, her anger dispersed into simpler thoughts, she tried feeling anger at her daughter and nephew but what she wanted was to be held?
She raised her arms imploring at her daughter, Sara bent and picked up the teenage baby and placed her onto her lap. Cathy was happy, so happy her daughter loved her she gurgled loudly.
I sat down on the couch next to Sara, watching as the once angry mother who bitched about my mother sat on her own daughter’s lap wearing a diaper and yellow sleeper, she made a cute baby, I leaned over and tickled her under her chin she exploded wildly with delight. Giggling and scrunching her face.
This was crazy beyond belief, but because of Cathy’s reduced mentality she was not embarrassed at all and I had even taken her daughter’s hate and turned into a mothers love.
We sat and watched a movie Cathy cuddled up to her new ’Mom’ quietly sucking her thumb as images passed on the screen, amazing too think somewhere inside that same bitchy 39 year old woman remained.
What am I doing here I wondered………