Chapter Fourteen
Jeni put down the phone, and sat on the edge of her bed at home, quite thankful that she was alone. Jack had left her just moments before. He would certainly have been there to offer her a comforting hug, but taking the news was easier without him. The call from Sam came so unexpectedly. Samantha, her childhood friend, faced a sentence no one should have to embrace, though they did every day. The two had played together when they were five years old, went through the highs and lows of puberty; the spats, the anger, the dramatic making up. They’d danced with joy at graduation a few years later, and as they parted, they vowed to stay close friends forever. Though they didn’t see each other very often now, a piece of them was glued at the hip after so much shared life. And n
