Chapter 8...Part 3

The girl’s parents picked the couple up in the morning and they all drove down to Ogden. The girl’s mom, Gayle, told her dad, Dave, that she wanted to stop at the post office because there was a certified letter there for the girl. The girl assumed this was Gayle’s way of giving her a chance to tell the guest what was going on.

They got to the post office and the couple got out. The girl told the guest that she could no longer do this. She told him that she had made several phone calls and no one had received money and no one knew anything about the money. She told him that she had a place to stay but she didn’t have a place for him to stay. She told him that she cared about him but she couldn’t do this anymore. She told him that she didn’t see any choice except to take him to the truck stop.

Gayle got out of the vehicle and told the girl to go get the certified letter and she would talk with the guest. While she was gone Gayle got the guest to agree to go to the hospital to be checked out medically. He had agreed.

The certified letter did not have anything to do with the couple, was something from the girl’s past. They all headed to the hospital to the ER to have the guest checked out.

They sent the guest in for a CT scan and did an EKG on his heart. On the EKG they told him everything was fine.

While they were waiting for the CT results the girl used her dad’s cell phone to call Bob. She asked him what he thought was going on from his side of things. He told her that the guest had never made it to any meetings they had planned. He even told her that one weekend the guest had said the girl was sick and the weekend they went to California the guest had told him that his brother had been in an accident and died. He told the girl to be very careful and if there was anything he could do for her to let him know. He told her he liked her but didn’t believe anything about the guest and asked if she could confirm anything. Of course she couldn’t since she had never seen anything herself.

The CT came back and the doctor said that there was nothing showing up in the guest’s brain. He said that he would need to see a heart doctor but as far as they could see he was fine and he wasn’t having strokes or anything else.

Gayle asked the nurse if they had any suggestions as to what to do with the guest. She told him he was homeless and they didn’t know what to do with him. The nurse suggested going to St. Anne’s Shelter. The guest told her to just take him to the truck stop.

Gayle was really tender hearted and just couldn’t see taking anyone and dropping them off. She told the guest that he and the girl could stay with them for a few days while they decided on some things.

The girl did not want to go to her parents’ house. She wanted to go to her friend’s house and to be rid of the guest. Her heart had been hardened and she just wanted her life back. She had lost almost everything she owned and she just wanted to get started on her life again.