You give her a surprised look. It’s hard to imagine mum not being grown up, so it’s unthinkable that she could have had an accident.
Mum laughs.
“Why do you look like you don’t believe me?”
You blush, looking away.
“I dunno,” you say weakly.
“It went all over grandma’s car seat,” mum explains to your disbelief. You know when mum says grandma , she’s talking about her mum. “It wasn’t that far a trip and we were in a hurry, so I told myself I could wait until we got there. Then we got stuck in some road works.”
