Through it All

Chapter 2

6:30 AM The next morning

Robert gets up and wakes Cheyenne with a kiss before he heads to work at the manufacturing plant. He walks through and wakes up Ace to get ready for school. Cheyenne gets up and gets ready, makes Ace's lunch and says," I love you and I will see you after while." Ace replies, "Love you to mom." As Cheyenne starts to pull out of the drive she gets her morning text from Robert that tells her that he loves her and that he made it to work. Cheyenne smiles because of that message, she loves that Robert still sends her those sweet texts to start her day.

Cheyenne heads to Arbor Elementary School where she is the school nurse. She opens up her office and powers up her computer to start her day. She gets her morning text from Ace,

Ace: " I love you mom! I made it to school and I hope you have a great day!"

Cheyenne: "I love you too! Hope you have a great day!"

Later that day

Cheyenne POV:

I keep thinking about Amber and what she said last night. It worries me, I can't lie. I worry about her and B, it isn't easy with him touring and her teaching school. They have a special set of obstacles in their marriage but I love them both. I needto be sure and talk to her this evening to get to the bottom of it.

I look up from my thoughts and Sally one of my Kindergarten students is coming in my office. She has skinned her knee. As I am cleaning her knee and putting a bandaid on it, Nate walks in. He hasn't come by school in several months, so that has my interest up. I usually can read his facial expressions but today he is stoneface. I'm not sure if this means I have a student in a bad situation or if he has something going on and needs to talk. Nate and I became close a few years back when we worked together on a situation involving one of my students. He was a sounding board when I couldn't talk to anyone else brcause they would freak out. I went through several months of testing because of a low white blood cell count, even had a diagnosis of leukemia, or I should say false diagnosis. But for about 6 months, things were really rough.  Nate and I were working together every day and after a few weeks  I broke down and it all came out. Robert was in denial about all of it and my best friend Liz would have freaked. I would have talkedto her but I had enough on my plate without having to deal with her freakouts. I love her like a sister and her son Colt married my Sierra, I was having trouble keeping myself calm.  Her mom passed away from a brain tumor 17years ago and now if the word cancer is mentioned she doesn't deal well . So Nate became my sounding board, I could vent to him and it never went beyond the walls of my office. He listened without judgement, although I know he felt like Robert wasn't doing what he should for me. Nate was always good for a joke to make me laugh when things were getting me down because no one else knew. It was a secret I had to keep for 6 months, Robert didn't want anyone to know. That is how Nate became my sounding board. So that brings me to the question, Why is he here?