He turned to me.
“Tonight you’re not going anywhere. You will stay by my side.”
When we got home, Mom called my aunt. From the hallway I could only hear fragments of the conversation.
“…he told Lily…”
Silence.
“Yes. Tonight.”
Hospital and treatment centres
Then, with a much lower voice, he said:
“I knew this day would come.”
After hearing those words, I couldn’t calm down for the rest of the night. Around eleven o’clock, the doorbell rang.
It was Grandpa. Mom opened the door, but didn’t invite him in.
“Dad, why are you here?”
Astronomy
“I came to find Lily.”
Mom’s face changed.
“No.”
Grandpa looked at her for a few seconds.
“Sarah, you can’t protect her from everything forever.”
“She’s a girl.”
Pregnancy and Maternity
“That’s precisely why I want him to be there tonight.
