[Jennifer - February 26]
She hadn't told Rodney anything.
When Jill had realized she'd missed a period, her first thought had been to mention something to him, but, in her experience, things like that didn't often go over very well. In another time, she would have gone to Mayko, because she had been the only person on the island -- the only woman Jill had ever really known -- who would have understood that she needed someone to be there for her. And she would have done so without asking any questions. A little teasing, maybe, but no questions.
But Mayko was gone.
Reluctantly, Jill had gone to Jennifer. It wasn't because she didn't trust Jennifer as a doctor, but because she worried somehow word might get back to Rodney. If there was nothing to worry about, she didn't want to end up chasing him off, which she was sure would happen if she went and told him she might be pregnant.
But with Carson gone, too, Jennifer was the doctor she would want to hear it from, if it had to happen at all. So she'd taken the test, she'd waited the twenty-four hours and now she was back, waiting anxiously in the clinic, trying not to have a panic attack.
It was likely just a false alarm. That had happened to her before, she'd skipped periods because of stress or anxiety or just an adjustment to island life. It wasn't impossible.
Yet she couldn't quite slow her breathing and she couldn't stop wringing her hands as she waited for Jennifer.
When Jill had realized she'd missed a period, her first thought had been to mention something to him, but, in her experience, things like that didn't often go over very well. In another time, she would have gone to Mayko, because she had been the only person on the island -- the only woman Jill had ever really known -- who would have understood that she needed someone to be there for her. And she would have done so without asking any questions. A little teasing, maybe, but no questions.
But Mayko was gone.
Reluctantly, Jill had gone to Jennifer. It wasn't because she didn't trust Jennifer as a doctor, but because she worried somehow word might get back to Rodney. If there was nothing to worry about, she didn't want to end up chasing him off, which she was sure would happen if she went and told him she might be pregnant.
But with Carson gone, too, Jennifer was the doctor she would want to hear it from, if it had to happen at all. So she'd taken the test, she'd waited the twenty-four hours and now she was back, waiting anxiously in the clinic, trying not to have a panic attack.
It was likely just a false alarm. That had happened to her before, she'd skipped periods because of stress or anxiety or just an adjustment to island life. It wasn't impossible.
Yet she couldn't quite slow her breathing and she couldn't stop wringing her hands as she waited for Jennifer.