"Yes, ma'am," I said. I started to walk into her kitchen, but then decided I wanted to go outside for some fresh air. "Let me know when I can come back in," I said before stepping outside.
I sat on the stoop of her front porch. It really was a nice day outside. I didn't know how many more beautiful late-summer days like this we would have left. It made me think that I really ought to use the pool when I got home. Now, I was thinking all of this, but it was just to distract my thoughts. I was a little nervous about Nurse Hamilton and Trina talking in there without me.
Nurse Hamilton seemed to know everything about me and about what went on at our school. She was also Heather's grandmother, and she seemed to know what was going on there as well. I really didn't know how she felt about me a
