Chapter 40
With all the worry about a park party in August. The weather, the heat, the food, it turned out to be a wonderful day. A slight breeze off the lake made sitting in the shade comfortable. Everyone had a great time. The food was good and Janet forgot about her diet restrictions.
As Eddie and Nick stood talking to Phil on the lap top. Janet walked over and grabbed Eddie's arm hard. She was having another attack. Not as severe as the one at Fenway but enough to make her want Eddie to lean on.
"What's wrong" he said not realizing what was happening. Nick, Pizza Girl and Phil suddenly got quiet.
"Gall bladder." She was able to whisper.
"Ok, do you want me to call 911?"
She shook her head no. As he grabbed her and held her so she wouldn't fall.
"Do you want to sit? Lay down? Throw up?"
Each question was answered with a head shake no.
"Can you breath?" Again no.
"Please let me call 911." He begged.
Slowly Janet exhaled and then inhaled and then exhaled again.
"Can you breath?" Eddie asked again.
"Yes." She was able to answer.
"Then come sit with me for a few minutes." Nick grabbed some folding chairs and set them together. Eddie carefully placed her in a seat and sat next to her never letting go.
"Was that what happened in Boston?" Nick asked truly concerned.
"No, Boston was worse." Eddie said. "At least now we know it's not her heart." Turning back to Janet he asked. "What the hell did you eat?"
"It's my fault. I didn't realize the burgers had so much fat. I figured the grill had dripped most of it out. There really isn't much here I could eat."
Eddie looked over at the buffet and realized she was right. "Ok you're done. We'll stay a while longer and then I'll take you home and you can reheat some of the chicken from last night. That didn't give you a problem."
"K." She answered putting her head on his chest.
"Nick, maybe you can come and hang with us at Janet's tonight. I want to replace some of her windows and she doesn't trust me to pick something good." Eddie hoped his friend would understand what he was getting at and he wouldn't have to explain things to Phys or Pizza Girl.
"Sounds like a plan to me. I'm getting. Any takers?" Nick said holding up his beer bottle.
"I'm good." Said Phil laughing.
After Nick walked away Hannah came up to check on her friend. Ray came with her but stayed a few feet away from Eddie. Janet could feel Eddie's blood pressure rise.
"You ok?" Hannah asked.
"Yea, just a poor food choice." Janet answered. "How'd it go with the invitations?"
"Great! I met with him at 8 am and he said he'd have them done by 6pm tonight. He didn't have the same paper but offered me a better quality for the same price. Ray's gonna call the other guy on Monday and take care of that for me."
"Terrific." Janet said supportively. Turning to Ray. "Sully really likes him. I know you're not looking for a new printer but he's always come thru for the bar. Always fixes his mistakes. Once we didn't realize he misplaced the decimal point on the onion soup. Didn't sell any for 79.50. He replaced all the menus at no charge. Like I said Sully really likes him."
"Thanks Janet. I'll keep that in mind when I talk to the Rob on Monday." Ray answered still keeping his distance. "Are you sure you're ok? Hannah told me how bad it was in Boston and you didn't look too good a few minutes ago. "
"I'm good really. Thanks for asking." She got up from her chair next to Eddie and gave her friend a hug. The guys just stared each other down. Janet then went over to Ray and gave him a brief hug also. "I'll talk to you later." She said to Hannah as she sat back next to Eddie, who never stopped staring at Ray.
"Alright, I'll call you and tell you how they look. Bye Janet, Eddie." Hannah said taking Ray's hand and walking away.
Janet looked at Eddie who was watching Ray intently. She put her hand up to his face forcing him to look at her. When he did she smiled and kissed him deeply.
"Um what was that for?"
"That was for not getting into it with Ray even though I know you wanted to."
"Note to self, kiss is better than fist."
Both were laughing as Nick returned.
"Let's get out of here." Nick said having had enough and eager to find out the test results.
After saying good bye to the Rowan's Nick took Pizza Girl home to Phil and headed to Janet's.