Halfway to Christmas by Steena Marie & Elena Aitken

Author:Steena Marie & Elena Aitken [Marie, Steena & Aitken, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781987877076
Publisher: Sister Books
Published: 2015-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

MELISSA

Melissa’s stomach knotted as she watched her daughter sit on the exam table, her face pale.

When the school nurse had called to say Abby had fainted, not once but twice while at school today, Melissa dropped everything and rushed over to pick her up.

“How are you feeling now, hun?”

Melissa stood by Abby’s side and held her hands. The nurse had given her a banana to eat and mentioned it might be a simple case of low blood sugar.

Simple? Unlikely.

“A bit better now. I have a headache, though.”

Melissa attempted to smile. “Collapsing on the floor and knocking your head on your desk might do that to you.”

Abby grimaced. “I’ve never fainted before.”

“I know. You scared me.” Melissa squeezed Abby’s hand, not wanting to let go.

“Did you call Dad?”

Melissa frowned. Had she called Wade? No. To be honest, she never thought to.

“I’ll call him once we know what’s going on, okay?”

Abby dropped her head and sighed.

Melissa was about to say more but the door to the room opened.

“Good afternoon, Abby.” Nyah Henderson walked in, a smile pasted on her face and her gaze directed toward Abby.

“Hi,” Abby said quietly.

“I don’t think we’ve met before.” Nyah held out her hand. “I’m Dr. Nyah. I grew up in Halfway and now I’m back working with my dad, Dr. Henderson.”

Abby shook Nyah’s hand. “Dr. Henderson is your dad? Cool. Did you know that, Mom?” Abby looked toward her.

Melissa nodded.

Oh, she knew. She knew and didn’t like knowing there was no other doctor today for them to see.

She met Nyah’s gaze and held it, not backing down despite knowing her daughter would no doubt read the hostility there.

“So.” Nyah cleared her throat and looked away. “It says here you fainted and hit your head. Mind if I take a look?”

Melissa watched as Nyah carefully felt around Abby’s head and then looked at her eyes and breathed a sigh of relief at the smile on the woman’s face.

“Other than the obvious headache you must feel, anything else I should know? Any thoughts on why you fainted?”

Abby shook her head. “I just felt really weird, cold and tired all at once. It hit me hard. I wanted to get my sweater but the next thing I knew, I was on the floor.”

“Hmm. This happened just after lunch, right? Can I ask what you ate?”

Abby shook her head. “Nothing. I had a few club meetings and everything was running kind of late.”

Melissa didn’t like the sound of that. “Abby, you ate breakfast at least, right?” She’d left early and Wade said he’d take care of getting her off to school.

With her daughter’s hesitation, Melissa knew. “So other than the banana that the nurse gave you, you’ve had nothing to eat today?”

“I’m not starving myself, if that’s what you think.” Abby stared down at the floor.

Melissa ground her teeth together.

“That’s good to hear,” Nyah said. “Is this the first you’ve felt like this, minus the fainting, or has it happened before?” She glanced at Melissa, who shook her head.

As far as she knew, this was the first.

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