Chapter 83

"I'm trying not to pee on my own hand while also trying to get it on the fricken sticks," I grumbled. She burst out laughing, the sound of it contagious as I, too, started to crack up. "Stop! Laughing is making this ten times harder!" I giggled. She wiped away the tears from her laughter as a few remanent giggles leaked from her mouth. Once I was finished doing my business, I stuck my non-occupied hand out for Kelly to hand me the caps. I stuck them on the tips of the plastic sticks before setting the three tests on the toilet paper she'd laid out on the countertop for cleanliness. "Okay, this one is only a three-minute wait, but the other two are five-minute ones," she said while pointing the farthest left one. "We should just wait five minutes for all of them, then," I reasoned to which she nodded. Time seemed to move at the pace of molasses as Kelly and I paced back and forth in the small confines of the bathroom. When the buzzing of her phone