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“Did you ever take the test?” she asks softly.
I press my lips together and shake my head.
“You got your period?”
I shake my head again.
“Do you want to?”
“In my heart, I know it’s negative. But, yeah, I guess I should.” I glance toward the bathroom, and it feels like the clock of doom is ticking.
“I’m right here, okay?”
I nod. “Okay.”
I head to the bathroom, read through the directions, and take the test, and then I call her in.
“Is it done already?” she asks.
I shake my head. “No, but I need moral support while I wait.”
“I set a timer and walked away,” she admits.
“Well, I’m planning to stare at it until I have an answer.”
She giggles, and that’s always been the difference between us. She has patience. I do not.
I don’t want to wait for Grayson to figure out that we belong together.
But maybe I need to take a page from Kelly’s book and give him the time and space he needs to work through this.
I watch the control line as it turns a pale pink.
I wait to see if another line appears. It doesn’t.
“Yours was really obvious, right?” I ask.
She nods. “I mean…I waited the full three minutes, but yeah. Two pink lines.”
“How long has it been?”
“You didn’t look at the clock?” she asks.
“No! I was too busy peeing on a stick!”
She giggles even though it’s not very funny. “No idea. Thirty seconds, maybe? A minute?”
I blow out a breath. “Fine. Can you set a timer for two more minutes?”
“Of course I can.” She pulls her phone out of her pocket, and we watch the two minutes tick down. The pale pink of the control line deepens a little darker, but no second line appears.
The timer ticks down to zero, and her phone quacks.
“Seriously? A duck?” I ask.
“I use the timer a lot in my classroom, and the kids respond to the quack.”
“You’re a quack,” I say, and we both giggle.
