It was Sunday morning, just after eleven, and Stephie was on a mission. She sat on the end of her bed, wrapped in a blanket to ward off the cold. The cordless phone sat in her lap and she was twisting the peice of paper with Father Peter's phone number on her hands till it was completely crinkled. Her nerves were set to overpower her, but the anxiety of not knowing if she was healthy or not had been building and building, exponintially this past week and she'd come to the firm conclusion that knowing was better than wondering.
Well, perhaps the conclusion wasn't quite so firm as she wished, because her stomach was all in knots. She'd decided last night that she did want to go by herself; she wanted to be alone to deal with bad news, needed time to process it before sharing it with Ry and the others. Even though she was certain of Ry's support, she didn't want him there- didn't want anyone there. She'd slept in his bed last night while he was at Jocelin's- hey, he'd offered, and there was a kind of confort in it.
But now... now she swallowed all her nerves and smoothed out the peice of paper, then, with every scrap of determination in her she punched in Father Peter's phone number, counting the rings while she waited.
( Getting help )