(Cole)
I led Lena out of the bathroom and toward the bed, my arm still around her, her face still wet from crying.
"Lie down for a minute," I said. "You've had a lot happen in the last hour."
She didn't argue, which told me how much she needed it. I got her settled against the pillows and sat beside her, and for a moment neither of us said anything, the two tests still sitting on the bathroom counter where we'd left them.
"I want to call the doctor," I said eventually. "Now, if that's okay. I don't want to wait."
"Okay," she said quietly.
"What's the number," I said.
She reached for her phone on the nightstand and scrolled to the contact, then turned the screen toward me. I dialed it on my own phone and sat there next to her, her hand finding mine while it rang.
The receptionist pi
