The angle swiveled and zoomed out to reveal that the person whose eyes she was looking through a minute ago were her mothers, staring down at her as she was sleeping. She said nothing but pulled a chair over next to Jessica’s bed.
Jessica’s dream self awoke, yawned, and tried to get her eyes to focus. Once the blurry image before her registered as her mother, Jessica opened her mouth to scream. The only sound she heard was of the pacifier hitting her floor.
“Hush, hush little one.” She heard her mother say. “Mommy’s here.”
Jessica was terrified. And, just when she thought things couldn’t get worse, her bladder chose this particular moment, of all the moments in all eternity, to empty itself into her diaper.
“It’s okay, baby girl.” her mother said as she put her arms around Jessica’s shoulders. Jessica wrestled free of her mother’s loving arms and began to cry.