When Mom had come home Liam had left us. I presume that he went to his own home. Micah on the other hand didn’t leave, however she did vanish into the kitchen only to return soon after with hot tea and small cucumber sandwiches for all of us. But none of us could eat.
Mom, Grandmother, and I sat together praying, watching the news and waiting. Sometime during the late afternoon, while lying in my mother’s arms, I had cried myself to sleep. They didn’t put me to bed but instead left me to sleep right there. I suppose they didn’t want to walk away from the TV for even an instant. I only awoke again when Mom was trying to change my overly soaked diaper.