It doesn't even take a second thought for Sookie's suspicions to hit her in the gut, to prepare herself for what's coming next. There's no way that it's about anything other than the cancer, Sookie thinks. If someone from her home arrived, Sarah wouldn't be so calm about informing her best friend. If someone left, Sarah might not even share at all. So this must be something that her attention needs to be drawn to, but that allows for the hesitation. Somehow, with Sarah, that description only ever seems to apply to when the young woman is speaking about herself.

Sarah always seems to come last, in her own mind.

"Go right on ahead," Sookie encourages, voice soft. "I can take it."