“It just has to pass on its own, right?” Stacy asked. She’d heard those things were crazy painful. If she had to endure this, she was damn well going to snoop for her son and get some knowledge.
All she’d put together in the past ten days was Jayce was gone a few nights and all day on Saturday until around nine.
He’d come back with new clothes so he could have been shopping. Might be with friends or could have been hanging out with Farrah and her son.
It was hard work not questioning her son on his whereabouts.
“Most times that happens,” Farrah said. “It’s whether you want to know for sure. You said you’re feeling cramping as you urinate; it’s possible it’s moving down or you could have passed it already. Have you noticed any blood or cloudy urine?”
“It was really cloudy this morning. It hurt a bit more than normal and there was a lot of pressure. That prompted me to take the last home test I had.”
“Then it’s possible you passed it already. I can always order you an ultrasound if you decide you want it.”
“Why don’t we start with the antibiotics,” she said. “If I passed a stone you wouldn’t know with the ultrasound anyway, right?”
“No,” Farrah said and typed into her computer. “It’s sent over now.”
“Thanks,” she said. She waited a beat. “Jayce had a lot of fun watching Archer for you a couple of weeks ago.”
“Archer had a blast too,” she said. “I’m glad it worked out so well.”
“He’s eight, right?”
“He is,” Farrah said, smirking at her. She wasn’t going to get anything out of this conversation.
If her son was seeing the woman in front of her, they were keeping it quiet.
And if she said too much, and was wrong, it might cause issues with a future between Jayce and Farrah.
She’d always liked Farrah as a kid and was sad the two of them didn’t work out. But she hadn’t been hoping her son found the love of his life at seventeen either.
He needed to go out and explore the world.
Then he came home where he belonged.
Would she ever share her thoughts of that with her son? Absolutely not.
But that didn’t mean she wouldn’t drop a few breadcrumbs on the floor.
“All I know is they are always your baby and I’m glad mine is back home again.”
“I hope I’ve got just as good of a relationship with Archer when he’s an adult as you’ve got with your kids and I do with my parents,” Farrah said.
Again, giving her nothing. Grrr.
“That is always a parent's wish,” she said.
“If you have nothing else, have a great day and I hope you feel better soon, but let us know if you don’t.”
“Thanks,” she said.
Stacy checked out and went to her car and did what she’d said she was going to hold off on.
She debated a few minutes and picked Carolyn Fierce first. The first name that popped up in her contacts.
“Stacy,” Carolyn said. “How are you doing? Enjoying that grandson of yours?”
“Every minute I can,” she said. “But I’m calling about Jayce.”
