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him.
    â€œBoo,” Lorain said, surprising Nicholas.
    â€œLorain, honey, what are you doing here?” he asked, hugging her.
    Lorain hugged him back, but only with one arm. Her left arm was unavailable, as her left hand was hidden in the pocket of her sky-blue dress slacks. She didn’t want Nicholas to spot the ring just yet. She wanted to tease him a little first.
    â€œIs everything okay?” Although Nicholas was smiling, there was a worried expression somewhat hidden in the background.
    â€œEverything is fine, sweetheart,” Lorain smiled. “I just ... I just decided to drop by to kill some time. Mom is keeping the kids a little longer today.”
    â€œOh, okay, well, what a surprise. I don’t have much time, maybe five minutes or so—”
    â€œThat’s all I need,” Lorain smiled.
    Nicholas gave Lorain a peculiar look. “Babe, are you sure there’s not something else going on? You haven’t stopped smiling since you saw me.”
    â€œI guess you just have that affect on me, Dr. Wright. Imagine if I could wake up every morning with a smile on my face.”
    â€œYea, imagine that,” Nicholas agreed, still not catching on to Lorain’s subtle hint.
    Knowing that Nicholas’s time was limited, Lorain decided to just swoop in for the kill. She slowly began removing her hand from her pocket and rested it on Nicholas’s shoulder. “I have been imagining it—me waking up with a smile on my face every morning—and keep it there—all day long. And that’s why—”
    â€œDr. Wright! Dr. Wright!” a voice yelled from the doorway that Lorain had exited from to meet Nicholas on the lawn.
    Every head turned to see Jim with a frantic look on his face. Just then, it was as if everyone’s pagers who were outside began to beep. As they began checking them, the hospital staff scurried inside like their lives depended on it. Obviously, someone’s life did depend on it.
    â€œI’m sorry, baby, I gotta go,” was all Nicholas had time to say to Lorain as he rushed off with the rest of the medical staff.
    â€œI’ll wait for you in the lobby,” Lorain shouted to him.
    â€œOkay,” he yelled back. “I don’t know how long I’ll be though. We’ve got to go prepare for three patients that were just called in by the EMTs. They are on their way to the hospital now. I don’t know what’s going on or how long I’m going to be.”
    â€œI’ll wait as long as I have to,” Lorain assured him before he disappeared behind the door. Just like that, every ounce of excitement Lorain had felt vanished. And just like that, doubt had managed to creep back into her mind.
    She looked up. “God, was that you or the devil who interrupted my moment?” she asked. She looked down at the ring and let out a disappointed breath. Lorain figured that either one of two things was going on here; the devil was testing her to see if she would give up, or God was testing her to see if she would give up. Either way it went, as Lorain headed back inside the hospital and went to wait in the ER lobby, she was bound and determined to pass either test. She would not give up.

Chapter Six
    â€œWill you please listen to me?” Unique yelled to the questioning detective that stood over her. “I don’t sell dope.” She looked around the small white room that had one table and three chairs. She’d seen this room before; not in person, but on that show, The First 48 that she’d watched a million times. But never, not ever in her lifetime, did she imagine that she would be one of the people being questioned and interrogated.
    Could this really be happening? Is this a dream, or worse, a nightmare? These were the questions that kept attacking Unique’s mind ever since she woke up in a jail cell wearing handcuffs.
    For the life of her, she could not recall how she’d gotten