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“Either way, I have to go. Take care of yourself? Promise?” he asked. She shook her head.
“This is wrong,” she told him. And he nodded.
“Nope, there’s isn’t anything right about this situation. I’m beginning to think there never was,” he replied, standing in front of the door.
“Can I visit you, later? After ... after a while?” she asked in a small voice. He sighed.
“Later.A lotlater. I have your phone number, I’ll call you sometime. When I’m ready. I have to go. Bye, Paige,” he said. She took a deep breath. She got the feeling he wouldn’t call.
“Bye Parker,” she whispered.
And then he was gone.
And he never called.
~18~
“... we’ll get drunk, and possibly have awkward sex, and it’ll be awesome ...”
It really never stopsraining.
Paige would never get used to the weather in Seattle.
She'd watched Parker from her hospital room window, watched him get into a taxi. She had followed the taxi with her eyes till it had finally turned a corner and was gone from view.
And that was the shitty end to one of the most amazing chapters in her life.
Not that other amazing things didn't happen – her mother showing up the next day was the shock of a lifetime. Mrs. Davis had received a phone call the week before, from “a lovely young man”, and after hearing what had happened, she'd immediately made the choice to go be with her youngest daughter.
A decision that more than likely meant she wouldn't be able to go home, and could possibly never see some of her other children again.
It had been hard, at first. They'd never really had much of a mother-daughter bond, and now so many years were between them. That first night, sharing her mother's hotel room, had almost been unbearable. But then Paige had looked at the woman;reallylooked at her. A fifty-four year old who'd never been on a plane in her entire life, until that week. She hadn't been away from his husband since she'd married him, and she'd never been away from her other children,ever. It must have been so scary for her.
She's so much braver than I ever gave her credit for. When am I going to learn to stop judging people?
So when her sister turned up several days later, scared and sobbing and carting along their youngest brother, Albie, Paige didn't even let the shock show on her face. She'd simply hugged the other girl – the first hug in over six years – and then had sat down with them all to make some kind of plan.
