“Stop diagnosing her, Maria, not everything is as bad as it looks. If she says she can handle it she can handle it. So when are they due?”
Ann was filling herself with water. This time things were worse than they looked. “Baku says I have two more pains to go.”
“Those pains that tear you apart and leave you passed out?” Ann had a horrified look on her face. I nodded.
“They only grow once, and since my body doesn’t change at the same rate, they have to make room for themselves.”
“That sounds like something from an X-files movie.”
Maria stood up and walked out of the room. She was back with a pen and a paper. “The pains are four weeks apart, so…”
I cut her off, shocked. “You’ve been counting the days?”
“Joe said I should. This way we’ll be prepared for the next one. But the only prob
