Travis woke up to find Maddie sleeping on his lap. He couldn't help but caress her cheek. Then, he stopped. He realized he might wake her and that he shouldn't be doing this. He then grabbed the remote and turned on the TV so he could not think about the girl sleeping on his lap. He turned to MTV, because he was in a pretty musical mood. About a half hour later, Maddie woke up. She turned her head up toward Travis.

"Morning stranger." Travis greeted.

"Morning. How long have you been up?" Maddie replied, while sitting up and rubbing her eyes.

"About a half an hour."

"What time is it?"

"About twenty minutes before you shift starts."

"Huh. Oh shoot!" Maddie said. She jumped up and ran into the bathroom.

"Wow. That was fast." Travis said to himself.

Travis and Carey sat in the waiting room. Carey was filling out papers and Travis was playing with his PSP. For an orphan he had a lot of cool stuff. He sat there with his feet over the arm of the chair and his head on the other arm. This was a whole new experience for him. He was really nervous about his whole thing. Carey then got up and Travis turned his head.

"Done with the paperwork already?" Travis asked.

"Yep. Just going to turn them in and then-"

"And then we'll be here for hours." Travis interrupted.

"Yep." Carey said. Then, she walked to the counter. Travis went back to his game until it was time to go in two hours later. Travis's nerves were bad. Luckily for him, Carey went first.

"How was it?" he asked when Carey came back.

"It wasn't bad. They basically test your blood and, sadly for them, your spit." Carey answered, sitting by Travis.

"Don't they also test your ur-"

"Yes, that too." said Carey, covering Travis's mouth. Travis laughed until the doctor called him. He took a deep breath and walked into the room.

"You nervous kid?" asked Dr. Shield.

"Yeah. A little." Travis replied.

"Don't worry. Hundreds of kids come everyday. Now hold out your arm and pull up your sleeves."

"OK. Sur-" Travis stopped dead. He saw the needle and was scared.

"Let me guess. You're afraid of needles?"

"Yeah. Just a little."

"Well close your eyes. I'll be done with this pretty soon." Travis closed his eyes. He felt the needle get closer to his skin. He couldn't help but look. The needle was headed for his vein. He closed his eyes again and soon after felt it go into his bloodstream. He tried not to move, but he couldn't help but flinch. A few seconds later, he opened his eyes, because he felt the needle leave his body. He put a band-aid on it and waited for his next test.

"Alright, basically your next test is to swab your mouth."

"Um, test the saliva. That's just nasty." Travis said. He had a look of disgust on his face. But, he did what he was told anyway. The next test I shall not describe or speak of.

"That's great. Well, you should have results in a few weeks." Dr. Shields said when Carey and Travis were both in the same room.

"So how do you feel?" Carey asked on their way to the hotel.

"Confident." Travis answered. Neither of them talked again until they were back at the hotel.