Hope and heartache

[ClingingToHope]

Here's a good one. W calls. She's going to be late getting home and asks if I can go watch the girls until she gets there. Problem is I'm covering for someone at work tonight.

I break away for an hour to watch the girls. She thanks me when I get home. I head back to work where my boss is mad at me for leaving.

Rock and a hard place.

I'm really not in trouble at work. I'm about the last person they'll let go, but I'm trying to get promoted so I can't be putting W's needs in front of mine all the time anymore either.