Chapter 23

"When will Richard be back?" I ask my sister turned nagging witch. The faster he gets back, the sooner she finds someone else to pester.

"In an hour or so but we're not talking about him. I'm worried about you, May."

She has been sitting at my feet, on the bed and yapping on about how strange I've been behaving for however long. I'm not really listening.

"Well don't be, I'm perfectly fine. I'm just resting."

"Are you sure you're okay?" Sarah asks for what is probably the millionth time and again I reply.

"Don't you have something better to do?" She pouts and makes puppy eyes at me, making me roll my eyes. "Just because today is my off day from work doesn't mean you get to pester me."

She scoots closer to me, causing the bed to bounce a bit and a slight wave of nausea washes over me.

"But you've been in bed all day. You haven't eaten anything today and it's almost lunch time. You're also being meaner than usual."

I scoff. "I'm always mean as you so kindly put it. What you call m