joey decides that she can’t trust her dad the day he brings jude home from the hospital. he said mommy and i are going to the hospital, and when we come back it’ll be the three of us plus a baby! and joey was genuinely excited for this new development. she got to stay home with her cool babysitter, who was thirteen and ordered pizza and let her watch the dark crystal. halfway through the movie, the phone rang and her babysitter answered it while joey picked the pepperoni off of her slice and stole some of the olives off of roxy’s. her mom always said that vegetables would make her grow strong, after all.
when her babysitter came back into the room, her eyes were red and she hugged joey for a long time before resuming the movie. they didn’t really talk that night, and the next day, her dad came back with baby jude, but not her mom.
trying to understand concepts like “your mother died in childbirth due to a freak aneurysm and the doctor had to cut her open in order to retrieve your brother” was kind of difficult at four years old. and because she was still a small child with limited rationale and extreme amounts of trauma, joey decided that the real reason her mother wasn’t coming back was because her father was a lying piece of shit.
joey claire, extraordinaire
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