LXIV

"Must something be up for me to call?" Arabella asked.

"Yes"

"What?"

"Don't take it the wrong way but you don't call or pick calls whenever you work. I remember your part-time job when you were in college. Mom thought something was wrong when you did not pick up"

"And she left me fifty-seven missed calls," Arabella said.

Talking about those memories made her miss home all the more. She hated that she was away from home. If she was home she would have her two legs to herself.

"I am not at work anyway"

"I knew it, there is no way you could be at work and call me," Seraphina said.

"Oh yay you know me too well," Arabella said in a mocking voice.

"Are you already playing hooky? You've barely spent a month there"

Seraphina was kind of proud of her younger sister who had always been a stickler for rules. She always followed them to the latter. To hear that she skipped work was kind of a thing of joy to her.

"Well, I'm at the hospital," Arabella said and the other end of the line we