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Oh…that came out all wrong.
But the fact remained that Maggie was special to Levi. She might not have been, but she was now. He couldn’t imagine life without Maggie.
No, he didn’t want to say goodbye to her. At all.
Why hadn’t he noticed that before?
Chapter Seven
Maggie woke up at ten thirty and stayed there on the couch, watching beams of sun rays stream into her living room. She’d only had five hours of sleep, but didn’t feel too groggy. For the first time in twenty four hours, she didn’t have to sprint to the bathroom.
Her tummy felt better, but she wasn’t over it.
Still, she thanked God that it turned out that she only had a mild case of food poisoning from the bad grouper she had eaten on Friday night. The doctor at the urgent care prescribed her over-the-counter medication, if she needed it, and plenty of fluid and rest.
After the doctor’s visit, Levi took Maggie to the nearest Walgreens to get her prescriptions. By the time they got home it was five in the morning.
Levi decided not to stay, so he drove all the way home to Dunwoody. Promised to take notes for her at the second service and come back after church to cook chicken soup for her.
“Lord, I have to get well.”
This upcoming week was going to be terribly busy for her as she expected to finish handing over all her Midtown Village work to Erika Song.
Thank God she wasn’t involved in the annual Christmas play at church, or else she’d be stressed out from doing too much.
Already, packing up the house to prepare for her move to Florida had been a chore. She spent half her time crying whenever she saw something that Levi had given her. A crazy Christmas sweatshirt here, a birthday gift there. Even a souvenir from their mission trip together to the Bahamas made her cry.
The last three years had been filled with too much Levi.
It would be a good thing for her emotionally to separate herself mentally from Levi. After all, he would soon belong to someone else, and that person wasn’t Maggie.
Oh how she wished that Levi had considered her more than just a friend. Best buddies, they were, and perhaps that would never change. All these good works and care that Levi showed her were nothing more than what best friends would do, right?
Okay. Okay. No time to think about that.
Maggie wanted to go to church this morning, but she knew that might not be the right thing to do. What if she not only had a stomach bug—like the urgent care physician said—but actually the flu or something serious? She didn’t want to infect thousands of people at Midtown Chapel.
In all of Maggie’s life, she hardly missed church in person except when she had been sick.
If she could make it, she would. Rain or shine, sleet or snow, flash flood or thunderstorms. None of those mattered. Unless the church was closed for a reason or she was out of town, she’d be there. In fact, if she were out of town, and couldn’t find a local church to attend, she’d livestream the church service, so it was as though she was there vicariously.
Church wouldn’t start until eleven o’clock. She had about twenty five minutes to brush her teeth and read her Bible. These days, she liked to read her Bible in the sunroom because there was more…sunshine. Winter moved the sun around the house, and her bedroom didn’t get as much sun as this part of the house.
She sat down at her favorite desk—the one that Levi had given to her and Malachi. Her Bible and journal were exactly where she’d left them…
Oh no.
The Post-It note was still on the table.
Surely Levi had seen it when he’d come here to get her phone in the middle of the night before they left for urgent care.
She cringed. Why had she written that note-to-self?
When Levi had brought her the phone, he hadn’t said a thing to her. He seemed a bit concerned about the moving boxes, but he didn’t press for an answer when she said she’d tell him later. He probably didn’t want to be the last person to know.
Perhaps Maggie was overthinking this.
Levi might be concerned about her, but she reminded herself that they were only friends. At least, Levi had never shown that he cared for her beyond a simple friendship. No perks, no privileges. Just two Christian friends who attended the same church and worked there as well.
