Quietly he slipped out of the bathroom, leaving me to myself. I looked in the mirror to see how I looked and a moment of panic washed over me. My face and throat were red. Quickly turning on the cold water, I washed both my face and neck repeatedly and then followed up by placing a cold rag against them both.
When I removed it I saw that it was still there and my stomach felt like a weight had been dropped into it. They were going to know what took so long and I had no way to explain it otherwise.
I left the bathroom feeling ashamed and made my way back to the kitchen. Sitting down at my stool I kept my head down and my eyes averted from the other two.
“Well that seemed to take quite a while” spoke Leslie as she brought her coffee cup to her mouth and took a long sip from it. “I was b
