Chapter Seventeen

Sofia sat in the waiting room, waiting for the nurse to signal her when she could go in. She was overly anxious, her hands fidgeted and her feet tapped the floor uncontrollably. She'd been denied for two days now, the doctors saying that she wasn't strong enough for visitors. Dr. Grayford had taken time to explain her mother's state and the image kept reappearing in her head. There was no way she was going to be stable after this and work had made her far behind her therapy sessions.

“Oh Sofie!” Varietta rushed to her cousin to give her a hug.

“Varietta. What are you…?!”.

“ I had to come as soon as I heard Zia (aunty) was sick. How is she?”.

“You didn't have to fly all the way from… Texas?”

“Brazil, darling", her cousin said, beaming with pride.

"Brazil? You guys have moved again".

"Well, it's only been a few months".

Sofia scratched the rash near the end of her upper arm.

"Well, I had no idea those few months!" Sofia hit her cousin playfully. Varietta laughed.

"Well, you are always b
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