Chapter Twelve
My place looked so foreign, so small and bare. I almost felt like I didn’t belong there. After some shopping and cleaning and readying for the work week, the familiarity worked its way in.
Monday morning was coming, and despite the new world, I had to make it any old Monday.
It was pouring rain when I woke in the morning. I was running late, not used to an early day, so I had no time to search for a tucked away umbrella. I took a chance that my flimsy rain jacket would protect me well enough in the couple blocks I had to walk, but as I pushed through the side entrance to the hospital and slipped in the puddle forming below me, I had doubts the jacket had done much.
At my desk I put my purse away, then peeled my coat off to find my soaking self beneath. A short sleeve bur
