Just after 11pm Jess walked in the door.
“Who dropped you off?” Lisa asked “Thought I was coming to get you?”
“I walked home, needed some air”
“You walked?” Bette asked “That must have took you a good 2 hours”
“I didn’t even realise”
“How is she?”
“Sleeping, she’s so angry” Jess sat down
“She will be” Bette explained “This is a lot of stuff to deal with”
“She’s like will you still love me if I can’t walk”
“She’s scared Jess” Tina sighed
“I get that, I understand that” Jess sat down leaning her head on Bette’s shoulder “She’s got surgery at 9am so I need to be there for 7, Dr Torres says she will sleep through the night, they’ve gave her something, but she has her phone if she wakes up”
“How are you?” Bette asked
“Tired, hungry, all over the place” Jess admitted
“Let me go make you something to eat” Tina said getting up
“I got fired at work” Lisa said
“Excuse me?” Jess asked “No way!”
“Way, my absences aren’t acceptable” Lisa stated
“You are going to fight it right?”
“No I hated it anyway” Lisa smiled “Means I can be around more to help with all this”
“Can’t you get her a job at the school, she knows just about everything you know about art?” Jess asked
“No thanks” Lisa said “I’m okay just now, I’m happy”
“Lisa you can’t do nothing you will explode” Jess stated
Tina handed Jess a sandwich and a bottle of water “Thanks mum”
“You’re welcome” Tina sat back down
“Least I can be with you at the hospital tomorrow” Lisa smiled
Jess mobile rang she looked at the caller ID
“Hey Andrew…very angry and snappy, yeah she was asleep when I left, they’re going to operate at 9am so I don’t know much after that, yeah I’ll give you a call the minute I know more, yep same to you, night”
“He’s such a lovely guy” Bette smiled
“He’s a sweetheart so genuine, what you see is what you get no hidden agenda” Jess sighed “Ok I’m off to bed”
“Yeah us too we were just waiting to see how you and Carmen were”

The next day…
“Hi Jess, that’s Carmen out of surgery, everything went great” The young doctor smiled “Dr Torres will come and find you when she’s done”
“Thanks” Jess smiled
“Well that’s good” Lisa hugged her sister “You worry over nothing”
Jess looked at Lisa not amused.
“Ok ok you have a little reason to worry” Lisa smirked “Let’s go get something to drink whilst they bring her down”