Ten minutes later a biker walked into the waiting room asking for Mason BY NAME.
Nobody in that room knew who he actually was.
I’ve waited tables at Rosie’s Diner off Route 9 since before Mason was born, six years now, double shifts most weeks just to keep his inhalers filled.
Danny left when Mason was two, and his mother Diane never let me forget I raised our son alone on a waitress’s tips.
Every school note, every bad night, somehow circled back to how I couldn’t afford a “real” job.
With the custody hearing three weeks out, Diane had started showing up everywhere, taking notes.
“Kayla, sweetheart, you look tired,” she said in the ER, lo
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