By the next morning, I had somewhat lowered my panic. I was still nervous, but I called the hospital and moved up my appointment with Nurse Irene to this afternoon.
The only other thing I could do in the meantime was not think of Asher. At all.
With all Asher-thoughts banned until further notice, I swung by a*****e to buy cookies and then walked to Lamar’s dorm.
Since he lived in the same building as Asher, I carefully checked around every corner and hallway. Only when there was no sign of Asher, did I carefully proceed.
When I reached Lamar’s door, I exhaled a breath of relief. I removed the price sticker from my store-bought cookies, straightened, and knocked.
“Wha-what time is it?” came Lamar’s muffled voice through the door. “Oh. Ah. Hold on! Coming!” There was a slam like he ki
