January Kelly Summary

Kelly sits against the wall at the Wee Ones Music Class feeling tired and conflicted, but mostly tired. She watches Steve bounce Oliver on his knee and wave his maraca to the beat as they sing the "Welcome" song. He whispers that if she has to get going, The Big O and he will be fine. She says, no, she'll stay. She knows other fathers sometimes bring their babies. Andrew had brought Ava and even Richard had brought Julian once. But they have jobs to return to, not job searches. Or so-called job searches. She looks at the AA posters on the walls and wonders where the group is for overextended mothers married to men without jobs. She thinks about the credit card bill for eleven hundred dollars he'd handed her the night before. When she'd asked for what, he'd shrugged...