Anxious Hearts
“He hasn’t slept in the two nights I’ve been gone. I feel even smaller than before.“I am so sorry, Da’,” I say, bending over the back of his chair and cradling his head after I feed him a warmed-up can of noodle soup for supper. “I am so sorry.” He cries, just like he cried on my dead mother’s birthday, and he calls me Evangeline, all the syllables, but this time it doesn’t bother me as much as it did before, because I know how badly I screwed up, and I know I scared him, and if using that name ...gets him through being scared, then it’s cool with me. I hold his head in my hands, watching the dusk fall outside the kitchen window.Da’ eventually falls asleep in his chair, and I call Louise.“Where have you been?” she says, practically yelling. “Where are you? Did you hear?”“I’m at home. Did I hear what?”“Where have you been?” Louise repeated. “Were you with Gabe?”“Yes,” I say. “Did I hear what? What happened?”“Where is he now?” Louise asks, urgency in her voice.MoreLess
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