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Mo the view of the bed She keeps my hand in hers as alk inside and as alk around the curtain, I seeout of his own on His face is all bruised His hand is scratched up badly and his right arertips

"Daddy," I whisper

"Go talk to hiuides me next to him "You can touch hi fro him with us until we have a chance…"

My eyes fly to hers "He’s going to die?"

"He is"

A doctor joins us She has crazy red hair and freckles, but she has kind eyes too, like the policeman

"Your dad was in a very bad car accident, Meredith"

"He’s breathing," I point out desperately

"With the help of this machine, yes he is But sweetie, e turn the machine off, he will pass away"

"How do you know?" I ask angrily "You don’t know! My daddy is strong! He’s just scratched up!"

"Your daddy is strong, Meredith," the doctor replies when my mom can’t "He tried all he could to save your sister He is a brave oodbye to him now, honey You can both take your time Spend some time with him" She squeezes both mine and mom’s shoulders and leaves The policeman leaves after her, and we are alone with my dad

"Moht all be real, and it can’t be real "Mom, he just looks scratched"

"I know"

"I don’t want to say goodbye" I shake my head slowly I can’t look away from him

"Okay" She clears her throat and smiles bravely at me, then pulls two chairs by his bedside and motions for me to sit closest to his head "Let’s just sit for a while and talk Let’s tell stories I bet he can hear us"

"What k-k-kind of stories?"

"Any kind Happy ones" Mom takes Dad’s hand in hers and bites her lip She puts it up to her face, nuzzles her cheek into his palether Tiff always steals all of the Sour Patch Kids

"Reon last year and Dad kept warning Tiff that she et bit by sharks?" I smile at the irls," Mom says "You and Tiff collected about a hundred sand dollars on that trip"

"Ninety-six," I say proudly "We were so close to a hundred, but then we had to co tiet brave enough to reach out and lay oodbye now, baby"

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