His back was to the door, so he didn’t know I was there. At first I thought he was laughing because his shoulders were shaking,
but then he put his palms on his eyes and I realized he was crying.
It was the quietest crying I’ve ever heard. Like a whisper. I was going to go over to him,
but then I thought maybe he was whisper-crying because he didn’t want me or anyone else to hear him.
So I walked out and went to Via’s room, and I saw Mom lying next to Via on the bed, and Mom was whispering to Via, who was crying.
So I went to my bed and put on my pajamas without anyone telling me to and put the night-light on
and turned the light off and crawled into the little mountain of stuffed animals I had left on my bed earlier.
It felt like that all had happened a million years ago. I took my hearing aids off and put them on the night table
and pulled the covers up to my ears and imagined Daisy snuggling with me,
her big wet tongue licking my face all over like it was her favorite face in the world.
And that’s how I fell asleep.
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