Mae was kind of staring at Ronnie like he'd grown a second head. Except that head belonged to some kind of glorious angel or something. She nodded at Father Peter's response to her kind of lost for a moment. She started forward, not to go to the office which was behind her but over to Ronnie and hugged him around the middle. He had kind of earned it. And if anything, that said loads about Mae's emotional state at the moment. No one got physical affection out of her except Cathair and her parents. "You've got to be the sweetest boy on the planet, mate."
Just as suddenly as it happened, she turned, nodded at Cath and started for the office. She just wanted to curl up under Father Peter's desk and hide. And that's just what she was going to do and pretend this never happened. She knew that something like this was going to happen...