Coming to find out that it was a social worker on the case of Avery getting to move in with Roland at the Noonan’s home, he was a bit surprised at first due to the transaction of information already being taken care of so fast and already having papers to sign for Avery to go ahead and be placed into someone else’s home. He didn’t really think much more of it, only knowing that it was very good news and that the problem was being taken care of immediately. 

The woman had mentioned that she was in wait for Mr. Noonan to come back so that he may sign the papers she had ready in order for the placement to be complete, that way Avery could live with them and have no worries anymore on dealing with an actual stable home, minus the abusive parent as well. Roland decided to speak for Mr. Noonan, mainly because he wasn’t back yet.

[i]“He‘ll be here,”[/i] he said the woman, [i]“Don’t know when exactly, but yeah. He’ll be back.”[/i]

It was taking a good while for Mr. Noonan to get back for some odd reason, but Roland also knew that he was a very talkative person as well, hence where Steven’s gets it from, so he could be have a conversation with someone and forgot he had to get back here with something to eat.

A minute later, the social woman had noticed how dark the room was, finding that the shades from the window were closed yet not knowing the reason of why. As she tried to open them, a nurse came in and yelled telling her not to, Roland watching as it happened. The nurse explained to the woman of the press constantly trying to get a hold of Avery with questions and photos to make headlines all over town with, then going over to Avery to check up on her again, putting her to sleep as well.

As she left, Roland followed up onto the topic about the press trying to get inside.

[i]“They were here before I got here,”[/i] spoke up Roland, [i]“The news people outside, they’ve been trying everything to get in. It’s really getting out of hand.”[/i]

Soon afterwards, Mr. Noonan came in with some food he was carrying in a bag. 

[i]“Sorry bout the wait,”[/i] he said, [i]“Got caught into a long talk with someone at the cafeteria. Hopefully this will be worth the wait.”[/i]

As he handed the bag over to Roland, he looked over to find the social worker woman, questioned as to why she was there.

[i]“Is something wrong?”[/i] asked Mr. Noonan.