Chapter 16

I grabbed some tissue and started clearing up the remains of my piss. I flushed the toilet and did every-thing robotic like about my trip to the bathroom, but, this wasn't a quick urinating session. I'd done it with a pur-pose and now that it had gone, I found myself feeling emotional one minute and crying like a baby. Like the one inside of me. And the next, I found myself taking deep breaths, trying to clean up with tissue any piss that had splattered onto the floor.

The instructions had said that I needed to run the stick under the pee for a couple of seconds. I hadn't peed in so long that I hadn't counted it right. I'd tried count-ing a second or two and then it'd been three, or maybe it was four?

Again the doorbell was going, but this time not just the doorbell. I could hear him yelling outside. The one that'd dumped me like a piece of trash on the curb. He wasn't going to go away. I needed this time for my-self just so that I knew what to do next.