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Stoainst the coolness of the bathtub My eyes closed of their own volition, the exhaustion weighing heavily on even that part of my poor abused body

I heard the bathroootorders tobehind her What was she wanting ht

Half an hour later found laring at E in the backseat I had ht around my bathroom trashcan which, thankfully, I hadn’t had to use yet

"Glare atto the doctor and that’s that," Erowled at her She rolled her eyes And kept driving my unhappy ass to the doctor

Two hours later, prescriptions in hand and silence reigning, we pulled into my driveway Hoave me helped immensely with the nausea, and the prescription should help keep it away

Emma wanted to stay but I wouldn’t let her, and after she finally left, Chloe kept watching me like I was about to pass out on her until I finally shooed her away, too She left me and went to the store to relieve one, too, so I blessedly had the house toup every five e and scarfed down a few crackers with soourmet, but it’s more than I’d been able to actually keep down in a while and it tasted pretty fuckin’ good toTrust ed to sleep for most of the day until Chloe came back I looked at my phone and saw that Emma had texted me, as did Brandon, Jackson, my hed and started texting everyone back, waiting to call my Nanny until I was done

"Minnie’s pool hall, eight ball speaking!"

Yep That’s my Nanny Cantankerous and crazy Bodes well for e, huh?

"Hey, Nanny What are you doing?" I asked her

"Oh, Allie-girl! How are you feeling?" she asked ? I saw you called three times; sorry it took ot to sleep today"

I heard her yelling at my Poppy to turn the damn tv down before she answeredon you We’re fine I suppose That dalaucolaucoma, and if I did, I told hiive it to h

I sighed "Nanny, you know he isn’t going to give you anything like that, and you don’t need it anyway You’re loopier than loopy as is!"

"And you’re gonna be just like row up You know it and I know it Now, if we can just get your ru with Mo with her…she just says that I’m on her nerves I can’t help it if she says she’ll be here to get me and it takes twenty minutes She lives ten et home and take my pills" She harruodda but hemorrhoids and heartache"

I rolled otten ain, while I can I’ll check back in with you soon, okay?"

"Okay, Allie-girl I love you!" she crooned in her gravelly voice

"Love you, too, Nanny Bye"

I hung up the phone on a rueful laugh and settled lass of 7Up and a few crackers Maybe if I ain for a while, I’dMac That sounded pretty good, too

I was half asleep on the couch watching the end of some sappy, sobby Lifetime movie when Chloe came back home I blinked at the clock, astonished to see that it was alrabbed my phone and looked at it to see if I’d