When Deb goes away to care for her mother, she returns to a home where something feels incredibly off. As much as she tries, she just cannot understand what it is, until her parrot, Pippy, reveals something that makes her review the home security cameras.
Working from home has been the biggest blessing for me, especially recently, when my mother was admitted to the hospital for surgery after finding out that she had fibroids.
Of course, there was no choice about it.
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“Deb, you have to go,” Nick, my husband, said when we were making breakfast together the morning after my mom had phoned.
“You’ll be okay here, by yourself?” I asked him, pouring milk into a cup of coffee.
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“Yes, of course,” Nick said. “Your mother needs you, and I’ll have to be here for Pippy anyway. I do need to go away for two days next week, but I’m sure Camila will come over and stock up his food.”
Nick was constantly going off on work trips, and because we weren’t looking into having children yet, Nick had gotten me a talking parrot to keep me company while he was away.
A green parrot on a person’s arm | Source: Pexels
Camila was my best friend, and she often came over to visit—cooking with us, having movie nights, and so on.
So, I knew that in my absence, Camila would watch over Nick and make sure that he was eating and all of that.
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I began to pack my bags while Nick got ready for work.
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