*!Perfection Through Silence!*

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"Amanda I have an appointment that I forgot about, so if Shane calls can you tell him I will talk to him later?" Hayley asked flashing her friend a small smile.

"What appointment? I didn't think you would be going out today... your flight leaves in like four hours, and you need to be there."

"I still will be I just need to go to the doctor."

"Have they found out what exactly is the matter yet?"

"The doctor thinks she might know what it is, but she doesn't want to say for sure until all the testing is complete."

"Are you going to tell Shane?"

"Eventually, when I find out for sure what the problem is."

"If it's serious like we've talked about before, you need to tell him. It affects him in a lot of ways..."

"Yes mom I know and I will tell him the minute I know for sure what the heck it is."

"Let me know what happens alright? I worry about you, you know."

"I will, I'll call you later okay?

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"Any pain or discomfort since the last time I saw you?"

Hayley really didn't want to be here. She knew there was a chance of this happening since it had happened with her mother years before, but she just didn't want to face that she might have the same thing. She had so much happening, and she couldn't picture dying before she got to do it all.

"You want the honest truth?"

"That's what I like to work with, when I see my patients yes, it might help me diagnose this easier, or catch whatever it is before it hits head on."

"I'm in a lot of pain in my stomach, and it's so bad sometimes I can't even move to get out of bed. I've been doing really well at hiding it from the people close to me, but its getting worse."

"Any abnormal bleeding?"

"Yes, not a whole lot, but its coming at times I don't really expect it too."

"Are you having intercourse with anyone at the moment, and if not, when was the last time you did?"

"No, I have a boyfriend, sort of, at the moment, but we haven't progressed that far in our relationship yet, that I want to be having sex with him. The last time I slept with someone was, god, like two years ago, when you first saw me about this."

"So since then, there has been no bleeding because of sex correct?"

"That's about it in a nutshell."

"Anything else that's throwing you off a little? I still want to do some tests to make sure what I'm getting here is accurate, but I want to know everything your feeling as of right now."

"Aside from the immense pain in my abdomen, and the occasional bleeding, can things get any worse? I would think all of this is bad enough as it is."

"It's bad but if we catch whatever it is right away, it wont progress to anything life threatening."

"You're telling me this could be life threatening?"

"Nothing is for certain Hayley, but you have to keep your mind open to the possibility that it could. Nothing in medicine is written in stone, there are constantly things changing, so about other symptoms?"

Hayley sighed. She really didn't want to tell the doctor about the rest of it. She was living fine with the pain right now; it couldn't possibly get any worse, could it?

"No. there is nothing else at the moment."

The doctor gave her a once over to make sure she wasn't trying to hide anything. As much as Hayley wanted to tell the doctor about the other pain she was feeling, she couldn't do it, if she wanted to keep this thing from getting serious and out of hand. She didn't want anyone knowing about this and it was bad enough that Amanda already knew. She had to make sure the doctor thought there was nothing else wrong.

"I want you to go downstairs for some x-rays alright? That might give me a better view of what I'm dealing with. If there are any other symptoms you need to tell me about, feel free to call my office or make another appointment to see me. I want to work with you here Hayley, and fix whatever this is head on."

"I know, and I will get the x-rays done when I come back home tomorrow, I've got a flight leaving in a few hours for Georgia, and I can't miss it."

"Okay, here's the form for the lab when you come back, so you can get in right away without them having to call me. When I get the results I will call you in and we can go over everything. Sound alright with you?"

"Yes, and thank you for seeing me on such short notice Dr. Abrams. Do you have any idea what it might be at this stage?"

"At this moment, I still think it might be a case of Ovarian Cancer, but as I said, nothing in medicine is one hundred percent accurate, so we will wait on the x-rays and see what happens. But until then, please take care of yourself and do not overdo it."

"I won't, and I'll see you when the results come back."

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Stepping off the plane, Hayley thought about what the doctor had said. She might have Ovarian Cancer, the same as her mother did. She remembered all of the pain her mother had gone through, first being diagnosed with breast cancer and then having it slowly spread through her entire body and finally resulting in her death. She didn't want the same thing to happen to her. It just couldn't, there was too much to live for. Grabbing her bag she made her way through to the customs desk. She had to put this out of her mind and live in the moment. She had a career she was beginning to love, and a potential boyfriend that was waiting for her at the arena. All of this illness stuff could wait, for now she just wanted to see Shane.

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"There's my girl! Gosh girl, you look wonderful!" Summer exclaimed as Hayley made her way to the girl's locker room.

"You show up here an awful lot lately Summer, are you sure you don't want your old job back? I can talk to Jim for you."

Summer laughed and ran her fingers through her hair. She did miss the ring a little bit, but being home with Jeff had its advantages, she never had a lonely bed at the end of the day.

"No, but thanks for the offer girl. So I haven't had a chance to see you since you were at my house for the get together. Come to think of it, I haven't seen Shane either, have you?"

"Yeah, we've hung out a couple of times."

"Is that all? You've just hung out?"

"Well, now that you mention it."

"Oh my gosh, come on now, I feel like I've known you for years, you have to tell me what's been happening since my party. What did you and Shane talk about upstairs in my room?"

"Well Summer, he asked me out on a date, that's what he did. I'm the girl he met at the club that night that him and Shannon and Matt went out, and after some thought, and pushing by his friends, he decided to ask me out. So what he's been doing since then is hanging out with me."

"So do you like him?"

"Oh you have no idea, its wonderful being with him. There isn't anything we can't say to one another." As Hayley said those words she realized there was something she couldn't say to him.

"Oh that's so cute! We have to have you over again, plus I want to see you more too. You seem like you could really fit in with our group girl!"

"Well you have my number, so you can just call, and I'll come running."

"How about a shopping trip on Wednesday? Are you free for that?"

"Sure, I was going to rest up when I got home, but this works well too. I'd love too."

"Cool, I better go find my husband, but you have a good night and good luck with Shane. He's a real keeper."

"I'll keep that in mind Summer. Nice seeing you again!"

With a quick wave, Summer rushed off down the hallway and Hayley made her way to Shane's locker room. She wanted to go over the nights events with him before he got a hold of the script.

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