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Date Posted: Saturday, November 20, 08:04:49pm
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Nikita507
's message, "Priority Mail 57+" on Thursday, November 18, 06:39:07pm
“Reverend Mother! Reverend Mother!” Sister Camilla called out as she hurried down the hallway. Rhoda lifted her head up straight and turned slowly towards this woman. “Sister Camilla, we’ve been over this…”
“You are leaving?” Sister Camilla asked and Rhoda pressed her lips together. She had hoped to slip away before anyone could find out and the news got around. She should have known that Sister Camilla would have found out no matter what she had hoped for.
She had never thought that after making a change in her life to join the convent, that she would change her life and leave the convent. Not after the devotion that she had for the act of ministering to people. Maybe it had been the hard demands of joining and moving up the ranks so quickly to be in charge, or maybe it simply never fulfilled that part of her life that she had hoped that it would.
After visiting Nikita, who Rhoda still thought as being Mary, the decision was made easy. The same void that she had sought to fulfill in her life was still there. She ached to help more than the few that she came in contact with the convent and knew that there were more women like Nikita out there in the world that she could be helping.
“Yes, I am,” Rhoda nodded her head gently up and down towards Camilla. She smiled gently. “You’ll find that Sister Abigail is going to fill my role so much better than I have. She’ll give you the guidance that you so desire… and the regimen and the traditional order.”
“Have you been assigned to another convent already?” Sister Camilla asked and Rhoda blinked her eyes. She didn’t know that Rhoda was leaving everything.
“I’ve decided to take another path in my life, Sister Camilla,” Rhoda replied with a soft voice that did not indicate how scared Rhoda was. Unlike when she entered the convent, she was scared leaving it. But Rhoda also trusted that if she felt like she should leave, it was the right decision.
“Oh, I didn’t realize the rumors were true,” Sister Camilla stated and Rhoda shook her head. “What?”
“You and the detective,” Sister Camilla leaned forward. “I guess he finally took the next step, correct?”
“If you are talking about Lieutenant McCarty, he does know that I’m leaving my position with the church. He was not part of the reason why I’m leaving,” Rhoda spoke with firm words. She wasn’t sure how to tell her friend about her decision. He had been at odds with her since Rhoda told him to back away from Nikita.
He was still trying to figure out how Nikita got the protection of multiple agencies, clearing her of any involvement with the angel. It didn’t explain how she was injured and how she had all this power. It confused Nat and he did not want to give up on the hunt for ‘the truth’. Rhoda had suggested that he just let it be and be happy for Nikita.
He hadn’t.
“I just assumed… that maybe your friendship…” Sister Camilla rubbed her toe against the floor. “Will I see you again soon? What are you going to do?”
“I have gotten a position at a small free clinic as a nurse,” Rhoda explained as she touched Sister Camilla’s arm. “It isn’t far from here… and I’m still a member of this church.”
Rhoda did not mention that she was moving in with a former nurse that she had worked with in the hospital. Her name was Zekia-Zaierra, but she went by Ze-Ze. She was from Jamaica and was loud and boisterous. Rhoda had always stayed in touch with her as they had both started in the Emergency Room at about the same time and both left the E.R. around the same time. Ze-Ze started to work in a doctor’s office and was still there. She had two marriages and was out of the most recent marriage for over a year.
Sister Camilla turned her head and walked away. She couldn’t handle the fact that Rhoda was leaving. It was that look that Sister Camilla gave Rhoda that almost had made her stay in the convent. But it would have been the wrong reason to stay. To stay to keep the other Sisters having faith would have been wrong. Rhoda was not doing anything wrong by leaving what she knew wasn’t the right thing for her.
Rhoda turned and headed towards the door. She did not see another Sister around and she was thankful. As she opened the door, Rhoda stopped.
Nat.
“I heard about your vocational change,” Nat spoke as he stood up from the car that he had been leaning on, clearly waiting for her.
“What are you doing here?” Rhoda inquired as she tilted her head to the side. She wasn’t ready for this. She wasn’t sure if she was read for Lieutenant Nathaniel McCarty at all.
“I was going to ask if you wanted to go out and see a movie… maybe dinner…” Nat asked as he shrugged his shoulders. Rhoda blinked her eyes. “Like a date?”
“Exactly. A date.”
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