So, Theo wasn’t too busy to come home. He just had come home because of Stella. But he only took a carload of sanitary pads.
The sound of the door closing woke his sleeping daughter, who started crying loudly in the car.
I fumbled around trying to comfort her, my mind filled with the words the shopkeeper and Theo had said.
Until a ringing phone interrupted my thoughts, when I answered, Theo’s voice was impatient.
“Why aren’t you at the hotel yet? Your parents are already there. How can you make the elders wait for the younger generation?”
“Stella’s stomach hurts, I can’t leave her. What’s wrong with you? Can’t you move any faster?”
“I also need sanitary pads, but the shopkeeper said everything in the store has been sold out. Theo, what a coincidence…”
My voice was so calm I didn’t recognize myself.
Before he could speak, Stella immediately said in a sweet voice, “How could this happen? Is my menstrual cycle the same as my sister-in-law’s? That’s such a coincidence…”
“I thought Adele’s was at the beginning of the month. This change is so sudden.”
The implied meaning in her words instantly enraged Theo.