Barbara fell asleep, her mind thinking on and on about her husband and Sarah. She was hurt. How could a 33 year old housewife compete with a secretary 10 years her junior and more attractive than she was at that age?
"I wish I could just be away from him!"
Barbara hadn't worked in years. She'd married Jack when she was 21 and Jack was 23, only a short time away from finishing law school, as opposed to going into the workforce. She'd worked to support him till he started to make good money at the firm, and when she'd lost her job...they'd decided that she'd just stay at home for a bit...which had turned into years. Sarah didn't know how she'd pushed Jack to succeed...helped him when he struggled. She hadn't just sat around eating chocolates all day. They'd been a team!
At the exact moment she was thinking that, Sarah made her own wish... "I like wish I was closer to Jack.”
Sarah had been a high school cheerleader, and had gotten only average grades in school. After a series of jobs, she'd taken a few classes and gotten herself hired at Jack's firm. She was good at her job and it was good money..keeping track of his schedule, giving him time to focus on his cases and hard stuff...they joked around, they had fun together...They were a team. So why shouldn't they be outside of work?
If Barbara had known her wish would be granted, she might have chosen her words with more care. Sarah, on the other hand, was much more impulsive. The two wishes merged themselves together.
