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Chapter Twenty-one
It had been a long night
When I got ho inlittle Anthony I stood in the doorway oflightly My sister in the htly on Anthony&039;s back
A beautiful blue glow surrounded old The aura around e, a contented color, a peaceful color
There was no color around my son There was only a deep blackness It was as if he didn&039;t exist at all The light energy around him seemed to enter that black field and disappear Like a black hole
I rubbed ht my tears I slipped into some sweats and a tank top and slid into bed next to Anthony I, too, restedback
I lay like that for a long ti for the sun to rise, and when it did, I was out to the world
So cell phone Generally,cell phone doesn&039;t awaken me But in the darkness of my deep sleep, a sleep where I seriously suspected I lay in a state of suspended animation so So enough to awaken ing phone off the nightstand and flipped it open, barely aware that it had said "Caller Unknown" on the faceplate My son, I saas lying next to mein a pool of sweat
"Hello?" I said, instinctively reaching forup My heart skipped-hopped in h me
"Hi," said a tiny and familiar voice
But I was too distracted with ister Two seconds later, the voice sank in, and I snapped my head around as if soh
"Hi," she said again Her voice, if anything, sounded even s her e came to me with crystal clarity and I suspected it was a psychic hit Takes awhile to believe such hits are accurateuntil you see enough evidence I&039;ve seen the evidence now
At thathad worked A phone nuasped, trying to control myself "Please, honey, can you tell me the name of the person you&039;re with?"
"He&039;s the badher head in my mind&039;s eye She didn&039;t answer me, but I knew her answer: No, she didn&039;t know
"Honey, what does he look like?"
"He shot my mommy He kilt her dead"
"I know, baby Please can you tell me what he looks like?"
"Old"
Old to a five year old could be anything froray hair?"
"None"
"No hair?"
"No hair," she said "He eats toobelly?"
I sensed her nodding but she didn&039;t answer I also sensed that she didn&039;t completely understand that I couldn&039;t see her nod, that she thought she had answered irl Almost an immediate one, perhaps born of desperation I had an idea
"Honey," I said, "close your eyes"
"But why?"
"Please, just close your eyes"
There was a sound froirl&039;s head jerk up So
"Please, honey, just close your eyes"
"The bad oing to hurted ain"
"Please honey Please Do it for me One tiiven a deeper access to her e of a room A nice room No, a beautiful roo the interior Whatever it was, it was epic Where the hell was she? I didn&039;t know Through herI saw sohtly on the hillside A desert hillside
I saw so else A blackover her and doing things that would be the death of hi!" she whispered over the phone, snapping me out of her el Okay Thank you, baby" I was crying now, but she would never know it "Be strong, Maddie, forfor you soon I swear"
"Okay," she said, "I strong"
I sensed a great presence near her, co from somewhere behind her, and now her fear knew no end As if my own, I felt her heart race faster than I had ever felt a heart race before
"Go!" I said "Go!"
Next I heard a scraping sound, perhaps her handover the mouthpiece, and what she said next broke me into a million little pieces She whispered: "I love you"
And then she hung up
Chapter Twenty-two
I was at the Urgent Care again
It was late afternoon and I was deteret oing to get hi call from Maddie had sent me into a panicked frenzy withup with her, as soon as I stopped hearing her precocious little voice tellingup I called ency&039;s database The neas griistered, throay cell phone
Shit
Next, I threw on my clothes and sunscreen, picked up my boy, and hit the road He barely stirred in my arms or in the van
It was still hours before I had to pick up Ta rooht hi him to pick Tas all day; update me on Anthony ASAP"
Yes, he actually used a seh tih time to help me