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If she woke and saw le to sit up I'd run to her bed and she would e to be all right

"I' Summer I just need a little rest"

No matter how many times she did that or hoell and confident she sounded I couldn't erase theDaddy with a note of panic in his voice call the doctor Lights would go on Mrs Geary would be running up and down the stairs Sometimes, the doctor would arrive and sometimes Mommy would be taken to the hospital in an ambulance I was too afraid to come out of my roo carried out of her room and down the stairs on a stretcher, my heart would turn to ice

After a day or so Daddy would bring me to the hospital to see her Even there, even under theht, happy s relieved of fear

"With your father looking over me as he does," she told ht Summer, so don't you worry He watches me so closely, he knows exactly how many breaths I take a minute," she said

It was aleration Daddy often looked like he was a doctor exa very closely to her voice His devotion to her and her well-being was the greatest testimony to his love for her and it did co these things as Daddy was in my eyes He never panicked in front of me, if he ever panicked at all He was always as in control as he was that day he saved Aunt Alison fro There was no one better in a crisis

I tried to think of what else he would do for Harley, butas he would be if he was trapped down here too If I panicked and cried and ranted I would be less likely to be able to help Harley I told myself

I dozed for a few ain, only noas acco of his teeth

"Cold," he said "Mommy I'm cold"

I quickly put the sweater back on him and put his pants on as well Then I located another blanket in the trunk at the foot of the bed and spread it over him as well Still, he trembled and moaned so I crawled under the blankets with hi my heat would ease his terrible turhtly as I could against ot less and less and he fell asleep again

But as happening to hi hot to cold to hot so quickly? Had he caught a terrible flu or did it have so to do hat he had eaten? I had eaten a little of that roll but I didn't feel any worse for it

I slipped out of the bed and returned to the stairway At

the door I began to plead

"Please help us Harley is very sick He's running a high fever and I'et hied

I waited and listened and then suddenly, I heard Suze chanting She sounded like she was just on the other side of the door