Chapter 35

From the room upstairs Fran listened to the movements going on below. The doors kept opening and closing, muted voices followed heavy footsteps. There was so much going on downstairs, but no one ventured upstairs to talk to her.
On the one hand, she was grateful to be left alone. This was a tense moment for her. In her mind she listed and crossed out a number of things that could go wrong. She knew it was just her mind playing tricks on her, her mind thinking of the endless possibilities of things that could happen now that Faith would be coming back home.
On the other hand, she wished someone would come upstairs to talk to her, to put her mind at ease, to chase out the lying voice telling her that something would go wrong very quickly. She was so desperate she would even welcome Bobby's presence if he had good news to tell her.