Doctored by K'Anne Meinel

Author:K'Anne Meinel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Shadoe Publishing
Published: 2016-04-27T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

“Hey, I brought you hot chocolate and an Egg McMuffin. Didn’t know if you’d had time for breakfast?” Deanna greeted her.

“Thanks so much for picking me up. Oh, God, that smells heavenly,” she answered as she got in the Rover. It was overcast today and looked like more rain, but that’s what happened twice a year in southern California. You got rain in November and February, and sometimes it lasted longer in the spring; however, it was cold! Madison got in and wrapped her hands around the hot chocolate. She knew that hot chocolate from Starbucks was very over-priced and something she never indulged in, but she didn’t mind that Deanna had bought it for her. It smelled incredible and tasted even better. The Egg McMuffin was a bonus. She hadn’t had more than a slice of toast this morning between cleaning up after the exuberant puppy who had pulled the fifty-pound bag of dog food off the counter and all over the kitchen, feeding the kids, and getting them off to school.

“Buckle up,” Deanna warned, watching as Madison enjoyed the treats she had brought her. She thought nothing of bringing them either, she just thought of it as ‘taking care’ of her girlfriend, something she wished she could do more of as she fantasized about what it would be like if they were together permanently.

“Oh, yeah,” she murmured, trying to buckle up one-handed as she juggled the hot chocolate and sandwich. Deanna laughed at her and grabbed the buckle she had in one hand and clicked it into place.

“You okay?” she asked, a familiar refrain.

“Wonderful,” she said as she sank in the heated leather seat. She looked perky this morning after a night’s sleep, but she wouldn’t tell Deanna that the puppy had kept her up most of the night with its whining. She’d finally yelled at it in frustration and it had cowered, which made her feel like a real chump for taking her anger out on the defenseless, dimwitted dog. It had quieted and gone to sleep after she threw it a blanket to sleep on over the cold linoleum. She only hoped it would not tear apart her house during the day while she was at work and before the kids got home from school. She hated that they were latch-key kids, but they were old enough to take care of themselves for a few hours between the time that they got home from school and she got home from work.

“Anything going on today at work?” Deanna asked her to make conversation. She cursed herself for starting that inane type of conversation. They spoke mostly of work, rarely about what had happened the last ten years, and never about Africa. That was never discussed or the relationship that they had had there so long ago. Deanna knew more about what had happened to Madison since then and Madison never asked about Deanna. She’d learned to glean what she could from her stories.

They chatted on the

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