Life After Divorce: A Short Story

She had been through a lot since her divorce, but her friends were determined that she would get back into the swing of things as quickly as they could get her there. She had been through a very bad divorce that just about completely destroyed her ability to trust in men at all. She had put all her trust in her ex-husband and what did she have to show for it, her best friend was now the mother of her ex-husband’s child of which was conceived two weeks before she even knew he was "thinking of leaving". He came to her one night and said that he needed some time to himself, to do some thinking and get some things straight in his head, so she gave him the space he asked for, she packed his things and left them on the front walk and told him to take all the time he needed, not two weeks later she found out the reason he needed some space, her best friend was pregnant with his child. Her best friend in the whole world, met when they were 7 years old at a camp and had been the best of friends ever since, decided for her that this was not going to destroy her, she had not only herself to think about but her son who was about three years old when all of this happened. Jen, her friend, the closest thing she ever had to a sister, arranged a sitter for the baby and took her out to show her that life was not over, it was just beginning.