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Chapter 7
"I'm sorry Cathy; I've confused you, haven't I?" I don't reply, just lean further back into my chair. He continues. "You know, I didn't think it had been so long since I last saw you, that I had forgotten what my own niece looked like" He says ruefully, running his fingers through his greying hair. "Uncle Jack?" I ask anxiously. His customary grin appears. "I thought you were in Sydney for the next year because of your business" I stutter, my false confidence restored. "Cathy, do you realise how unwell you were? Because I got a phone call yesterday, from the hospital, do you know what that means?" His eyes start to water when he talks; he falls into the seat opposite me at the table. "Uncle, I don't understand" By now, his eyes have filled up and started to dribble saltwater. "Cathy, the phone call, it was, they were." He takes a deep breath. "Cathy, they said that I would never be able to see you again unless I came, they said, they said that you were going to die and you had an extremely high chance of not surviving the night" He is crying freely. I suddenly stop everything except breathing, my mouth hanging open. "They said I, I would die?" I ask carefully. He nods, causing an avalanche of tears to fall from his chin. I use the table to support me as I walk around to the other side and I give him the biggest hug that I can manage gently rubbing circles in the middle of his back.
When I think he's began to feel better, I straighten my back once more. "Uncle, one more thing" I start, I have to be careful what I say, as any mention of my mum, or Lily could set him off. He knows what I made happen to me, and why I did it. And, while he accepted that I did my best to do the right thing, he has never approved. "What is it?" He queries, I right in thinking that he felt better. "Where's Lily?" I mumble. "Cathy, you don't have to be afraid to mention her name anymore, you know. In any case, she's there, talking to that young man at the table." He says calmly, I sit back down in my seat and I follow his gaze and see a familiar face, I'm also glad to see that Lily doesn't even have a scratch on her. I wave apprehensively and I can see the young man turning around to look behind him. I hide my slight genuine smile behind a curtain of my waist length brown hair and look away speedily. He was looking at me as if he recognised me. I suddenly remember that I'm with company and I turn around myself to see that Uncle Jack has an amused and happy look on his face, "What?" I ask, blushing.
