Yeah, I think it was.
But it happened so fast that I wasn't sure, but Jesse saw him as well. He was back.
But he wasn't glowing. My dad, I mean. My mind was going 100 miles an hour. I had no idea what was going on.
Then I blacked out...
"Querida? Querida? Querida?""
I could hear Jesse's voice thicken with panic every time he said querida.
I slowly opened my eyes and tried to sit up. I sat up way too fast. The room started to spin.
"Susie, are you okay?"
I heard my mom say frantically.
"I think she needs to go to the emergency room. Poor Susie. I think she's a bit stressed. Jesse, what do you think?"
I think it was her that was stressed, I mean, she was talking so fast. Now I know where I inherited it from.
"I think she just needs some rest."
Then the doorbell rang...
Andy ran to the door.
"Hello. And you are?"
"I'm here to see Susannah."
"Sorry, I'm afraid that she's not feeling herself right now-"
"-I know."
What does that guy know. That guy has no freakin idea what I put up with.
"-Yes, anyway. I'll tell her to call you when she's feeling better."
Now that I think about it, it was so obvious who that guy was. I knew his voice. Not Andy's. Well of course I knew Andy's voice. But I could easily recognize the voice, but I just couldn't match the voice to the face.
So I got up and walked-no, hobbled- over to the front door and I was then greeted by Mark Pulsford's handsome, yet extremely arrogant face.
I let out the most shrill scream in the history of my voice box.
All he had to say was, "Nice to see you too."
I heard the stair creak beneath weight. Only Dopey could make them creak that way.
"What is with all the freakin noise?"
Only he didn't say freakin, if you get my drift.
He continued to mutter obscene words under his breath, until he saw Mark. Then he juat stood there, looking dumbstruck with his mouth wide open.
I have no idea how I got through the next two days, but I had a feeling that Jesse helped me through them.
God, what would I do without him?
Little did I know that I was going to have to figure that out pretty soon.
