So Let Us Rejoice by Tinnean

Author:Tinnean [Tinnean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

The days dragged past—not that I was expecting Dr. Autry to show up in the Anat and Phys lab or the lecture hall. Professor Ellison was disgustingly healthy and never took sick time off, although he didn’t discard his habit of coming in late on more than one occasion.

As a matter of fact, I was glad Dr. Autry didn’t show up. The reason why the days dragged was simply because I waited for the phone call that would confirm or refute my suspicion that I had an STD.

So I skulked around campus, hoping I wouldn’t run into Dr. Autry, and paradoxically hoping I would. God, I was one weird puppy.

I did feel better after a couple of days on the antibiotic, but I was no fool, and I continued taking the Cipro Dr. Autry had prescribed for me, finishing the last of the tablets on Friday morning.

Now here it was, Sunday, twelve days after Dr. Autry had taken blood, and I hadn’t heard a word from the clinic. Could I be even sicker than I’d originally thought?

I was out at the rabbit hutch taking care of the chocolate mini lop Mum had given me for Easter a few years before. Galaxy sat comfortably on my lap. I’d named him after my favorite British chocolate bar, since his coat was the same color. While I ran a brush over his lush fur, he cuddled against me—he was a sweet-tempered rabbit—and I hummed softly. I’d done my research and had him neutered when his testicles descended at twelve weeks, and without sex on the brain, he made a lovely pet.

Of course Uncle John hadn’t been happy when he’d learned Galaxy wouldn’t be siring babies to sell. Uncle John wanted them for meat rabbits, even though they would have fetched more money in the pet market. As if I’d do either of those to my little boy.

Elvira appeared at my shoulder, scaring the spit out of me. “You got a phone call,” she said in her harsh nasal voice. She narrowed her black, beady eyes at me, making them even beadier, and while I knew she was only a year or so older than Mum, the gray streaks in her wiry hair made her appear closer to Uncle John’s age.

“Oh. Thanks, I’ll go—”

“You know Mr. John don’t like you getting phone calls.”

Which was why I didn’t have many friends. “Who called, Elvira?”

“Some smart aleck who tried to convince me he was a doctor. Doctor’s don’t call on the phone, just like they don’t make house calls no more. Must’ve thought I was born yesterday.”

“Who did you think it was?”

“One of your useless boyfriends most likely.”

“I don’t have a boyfriend, useless or otherwise.”

“Well, he’s already called a few times.” She sneered at me.

My stomach lurched. “Did he give a name?”

She shrugged. “I put a bug in his ear and told him not to call here again before he could.”

“Why?” If it was Dr. Autry, I’d have to go see him in person to find out the results of my blood test.

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