Heaven Right Here by Lovely Lutishia

Author:Lovely, Lutishia
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

37

Life and Death

“I think I just ruined my marriage.” Stacy had finally answered when Hope called.

“Girl, now you’re sounding as dramatic as Frieda,” Stacy said dryly.

“No, Stacy, I’m serious.” Hope relayed the day’s events in minute detail, so someone would have to pay Stacy not to understand how serious this was.

“Things could be worse,” Stacy said after Hope’s long diatribe.

That’s when Hope knew something was not right. The woman she was talking to didn’t have Hope’s toe, knee, or pinkie finger, much less her back. “Did you not hear what I just said? I poured a pitcher of tea over Millicent Sims’s head!”

“Payback is a mutha—” Stacy mumbled.

“It wasn’t payback, Stacy. I thought that she—wait a minute. Something’s wrong. What is it?”

“Nothing. Not yet anyway.”

“What am I supposed to make of that cryptic answer? Is this about Darius?” Hope asked that question to be polite; with Stacy it was hardly ever about anything else.

“I found a lump in my breast.”

It was the first time Stacy had said the words aloud, and it stopped conversation on both ends for several seconds.

When conversation restarted, it was Stacy who spoke. “Two nights ago, after the prayer service with Rev Thicke, I went home, took a bath and, while sponging myself, felt this lump, about the size of a quarter, under my left breast.”

“Oh, my gosh, Stacy!” Hope was quiet a moment. She didn’t know what to say. “Did you go to the doctor?”

“That’s where I was when you were blowing up my phone. They did a biopsy on me and sent the tissue to a lab. I’m supposed to know in three to five days whether it’s benign.”

Hope was quiet. There was life and death in the sense that she didn’t think she could live without Cy. And then there was life and death, as in cancer, the word both women had thought but neither had yet said.

“Look, Stacy. I’m almost back in LA. Why don’t you come over?”

“Naw, girl. It looks like you’ve got your own set of ugly going on. Plus, I stopped by my mother’s house when I left the hospital, and nothing can make you feel better than a mama. She helped me put this whole thing in perspective and told me not to focus on something that isn’t even fact yet. The nurse said most tests come back benign and that probably mine will too. I tell you what, Hope. It just makes me more thankful of everything, you know? Here I’ve been fighting with Darius over whether he should see his own son, and with Bo, who has legal claim to somebody who doesn’t even want to be with me. What have I been thinking the past two-plus years? I haven’t been thinking—that’s the problem. I think this little scare is simply God’s way of getting my attention. And I’m listening. It started the night Rev Thicke spoke, and it was just reemphasized today. From now on, there’s no more half stepping when it comes to my faith.

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