Chapter 12
Author's note: Just to let you know, from now on when I use italics it is for a cell phone conversation.
Sam and Brady sat on bench outside the local ice cream joint. Brady was happily scarfing down his ice cream cone. Sam looked over at him and smiled. Brady had never had ice cream before and had asked Sam to pick out the 4 best flavors so he could see which one he liked best. Chocolate, strawberry and vanilla were the 3 most obvious choices. She added to those orange sherbet, which was her favorite. Brady was halfway done with his 4 scoops when he took a breath and smiled.
-This is really good. The orange is my favorite.
-Mine too. Are you gonna be able to eat all that?
She asked because she had finished her two scoops 10 minutes ago and didn't want to be a pig and go buy more. But, much to her disappointment he nodded vigorously.
-Yup.
-Well then…
Suddenly her cell phone rang. Sam sighed.
-I knew this wouldn't last forever. Hello.
-Sam, this is Janet.
Sam looked over at Brady and then slowly wandered away from the bench. Something told her that this was about him.
-What's up?
-I got the results of Brady's brain scan.
-And?
-It was clean. No enlargement of his reticular formation. No tumors. Nothing.
-That's odd.
-Tell me about it. So, do you have anything new on your end?
-Maybe. He remembers stuff from when he was a year old.
-Really?
-Yah. And get this, Laira had some sort of mental illness.
-Hmm, that's interesting. That might explain some of this. Wait a second, did you say Laira?
-Yah.
-So, you figured it out huh?
Sam sighed.
-It wasn't that hard. Brady mentioned Garan and since we've only met one person with that name it didn't take me too long to put Jack's 100 day stay on Edora and Laira together to get Brady.
-Sam, I'm sorry…
-It's not your fault, Janet. Look, if there's nothing else I'm gonna get back to my ice cream.
-Ok. Take care.
-Talk to you later.
With that Sam hung up. She walked back over and sat back down. Brady looked at her expectantly.
-It was about me wasn't it?
Sam nodded.
-But, there's nothing wrong with you. Your brain scan was clean.
-That's weird isn't it?
She nodded again.
-But, don't worry about. Doctor Fraiser will figure it out.
He nodded, not convinced. Sam smiled.
-Well, I see you finished your ice cream. I could go for some more how about you?
Brady smiled and nodded.
-Ok then. Let's go get some more.