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Goddalance at the clock Not evenday’s not even over I’ out a little longer I o to bed I point the remote at the TV to turn it off when I see the headlines Nine killed in rown terror cell west of Cheyenne

Holy shit, I totally deserve to see that That’s what I get for turning the TV on I point at it again to turn it off and then stop

The whole world fking stops

Sasha Alena Cherlin’s face flashes across the screen Wounded in the firefight, is all it says

What fking firefight?

I just stare at the TV for a few seconds, trying to process this new reality She’s in the hospital after being attacked in a fa cabin twenty-five un deal, no names of the dead are released, but poor Sasha The reporter says her grandparents are picking her up and taking her ho Her father is one of the unnaht as I try to coirl this ht for her ive it to my mother And my mother will probably never see it because I’ himself to celebrate a holiday with his own family

Faranted, even after all that shit withher up on Christmas Eve

What kind of piece of shit am I?

I look back over at the clock Eleven forty-two I knohere my mom will be in twenty minutes Hell, she’s probably there noalk back to ray suit, corabto church

Chapter Nine

St Margaret’s is a traditional brick Catholic church with an up in the corner, the lavish altar, and the stained glass s I haven’t been in here in years, but as soon as I walk in the smell of incense overtakes my senses and I feel like I never left

We have a spot where we sit In fact, alard, because our spot on Saturday eveningBut when I look over at our spot, there’salone

I am such a bad son