NAUSEOUS

I tell Tano I'm nauseous. I say, "Do you know what this means?"

He says, "Yes." He says he's worried, but I don't think he's worried enough.

I tell him I'm making an appointment this weekend for an abortion. "So don't make plans," I say.

He says something that I cut off in the middle.

I say, "I have to go throw up. I'll call you back."

I hang up and let my stomach settle and then I call Miriam. She says, "Remember last time you were pregnant?"

I say, "Last time was only sore breasts. This time is nauseous."

"Well," Miriam says, "sometimes I get nauseous from PMS."

"Really?" I say.

"No. Not really."

I say, "I'll take a pregnancy test."

"Good idea," she says. She says, "Call the 800 number—the women are social workers or something. Really nice. I used to call them when dates stood me up."

I unwrap my emergency test and pee.

I call Miriam. "One blue line," I say. "Can you remember if one line means yes or no?"

"Read the package."

"I threw it out," I say. "Oh," I say, "I have to vomit." And this time I really do. Lunch and then some.

Then I look in the mirror sideways to see if I lost weight from the vomit.

Then I am freezing, so I put on my sweaters, which are conveniently on my floor as bedding.

I am freezing and sleeping and then sweating and sleeping.

Then the pregnancy test place calls to say one line means no.

Tano knocks.

I feel a little better, but I decide not to say anything because I need him to express concern.

I tell him the door's open, and he says someone's going to come in and kill me while I'm sleeping.

As you can see the only space that is explicit in the text is "on my floor". With this reference we can think that they are at some apartment.

The words or sentences that are in green do not belong to any place. They are underlined because with them, we can understand the places that are not specifically mentioned

Having read the chapter, you realise that Tano and his couple are at their own home. But, to my mind, there is something interesting to comment, when the two women are talking by telephone. Where are their talking?.

We can predict, than she is in the toilet because: she has nauseous, says to her friend, "I´ll take a pregnancy test" and "Tano knocks" to the apartment door. But we do not know and cannot predict where Miriam is.