All the Difference by Leah Ferguson

Author:Leah Ferguson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

Thirty minutes later, Molly was wandering around the magazine racks of the massive Barnes & Noble on Walnut Street, looking for a pregnancy or parenting journal she hadn’t already read cover to cover, when she saw Jenny’s husband sitting at a table by himself in the in-store Starbucks with an oversized coffee cup in his hand. Without hesitating, she walked over to him. She hadn’t seen him since that awful incident at her and Scott’s engagement party.

Dan didn’t notice Molly’s approach, and she was able to get a good look at him before he registered her arrival. He was hunched over a stack of papers on the table, a pen held tightly in his left hand. His shoulders were tense, his feet planted wide on the floor. It looked like he was still in his work clothes. Must be teaching summer school again, Molly thought. Dan was always doing what he could to help his kids—and he said the extra money was nice, of course. He consistently looked the part of the standard-issue young, idealistic teacher, in his khakis, button-front shirt, and tie. His black Dr. Martens were shined to mirror-like quality, and his hair was cropped neatly close to his head. He looked tired, Molly noticed, but she wasn’t sure if that meant he was up all night worrying about his struggling marriage or if the dark circles were just the result of another strenuous day spent manning the trenches in the classrooms of Philadelphia’s public schools. She swallowed the lump in her throat when she saw the wedding ring in its usual place on his finger.

“Dan. Hi.”

He looked up with surprise but seemed genuinely pleased to see her. He smiled wearily. “Hey, Mol, what are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be off hobnobbing with the cream of the Philly crop? Here, sit down and take a load off. You look like you ate an inner tube.”

Dan leaned over to take his school bag off the chair and placed it on the other side of the table.

“Oh, you hadn’t heard?” Molly said as she sank down into the seat. “My hobnobbing days are over, buddy, at least for now. I got canned.”

Dan choked on his coffee. “What? No shit. What for?”

“Oh, it doesn’t matter. Let’s just say I’m not as good a juggler as I used to be.” Molly leaned back in her seat and placed her feet on the chair between them. It felt good to sit down.

“And what does Handsome Harry think about all this?”

Molly chuckled and shook her head, staring at the papers stacked under the pencil in Dan’s hand. “Scott? He’s why I’m here. We’re having some, uh, difficulties agreeing on how to raise the baby.”

Dan raised an eyebrow. “What did he say now?”

Molly laughed out loud this time, a genuine laugh, the whole situation suddenly just seeming absurd. “Oh, Dan. He’s actually excited I got fired. His whole family’s practically drawn up a schedule for me for when the baby comes—stay home all day to do laundry and breastfeed, cook gourmet meals, attend charity galas with his parents at night .

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