I wish I had never seen that because in that very instant my entire world came crashing down around me. For maybe three seconds I stood before that enormous television screen, frozen and lifeless, as my brain began to understand why I had been singled out at school and brought to the office. I turned around; Grandmother, Micah, and Liam were all standing and looking at me with worried and anxious expressions.
I think I said it before I actually knew I had thought it. “My dad is dead isn’t he?”
Micah rushed toward me, scooped me into her arms and pressed my head into her bosom. Then I lost it! I totally lost it. Micah and Grandmother were on the floor holding me and crying right along with me as Liam, who is a well-built Newfoundland immigrant, stood there crying over us.