Chapter 35: You Look Like You've Seen A Ghost

Looking across the busy foyer Payton saw Josh talking with his parents and Hailey. When Hailey made eye contact, she smiled slightly and gave her a little wave. Hailey had come in that morning, and Payton had only had time to give her a quick hug before she'd gotten busy doing stuff for the service. She was really surprised at the number of people who'd come, and how many of them had come to her personally to share a story or say how much her mother meant to them.

Things had calmed down a bit and even though there were several people still around, Payton's grandparents had gone to take care of a few things in another room. Payton was about to finally go see her friend when a man stopped her, "I just wanted to say I'm so sorry about everything that happened to Kathy. She was an amazing woman."