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Nina came up to the bedside and stood beside Meredith

“But ill take care of you two?” Mom asked

Meredith started to answer and stopped It dawned on her both that this was theMoht to ask it

Moone someday, and only they would be left Would they take care of each other?

“So,” Nina said when they went out into the hallway, “howto?”

Meredith kept“All of it ”

Nina followed her down the stairs “Then why in the hell did you stop her?”

In the kitchen, Meredith put water on to boil “I don’t get you,” she said to her sister “When you look through a piece of glass the size of”

“Yeah So?”

“Tonight you sat in the room with Moht in front of you ”

“Says you ”

Meredith alhed at the immaturity of that “Look It’s been a hell of a day and I can tell you’re itching for a fight, which I definitely don’t want to have So I’h the night Tomorroe can talk about the fairy tale, okay?”

“Okay But ill talk about it ”

“Fine ”

Long after Meredith had gone, Nina re about what her sister had said