Jane’s feelings of release were somewhat marred by the fact that she had begun getting her monthly cramps the night before. Usually they weren’t overly painful but this time they were, possibly because of the stress and fatigue of the last several days.
This was bad enough in itself, especially since it had made it harder to concentrate on her last exams, but she had been hoping Peter would want to make love to her by way of celebration and now that wouldn’t be possible. And tomorrow she and her mother were going to Boston to see her mother’s gynecologist—though she had told Peter she was just going shopping—so they wouldn’t be able to see each other then either.
Monday they would be
