The way Grandmother was speaking scared me. I sat silently and listened as she continued, “Your Grandfather left immediately after getting the call. We don’t know yet how bad it is or if the fire is out, but we do know that at least two ships have already sunk and that a lot of crewmen are unaccounted for.”
I sat there in the backseat very quietly thinking about what she had said. We were nearly home when I asked, “Does Mom and John know? Are they with Grandfather?”
At first she didn’t answer me and I didn’t really think anything about it at the time. When she did answer all she said was, “I spoke to your mother and she asked that I pick you up.”