Reunion

After dinner, Alex sat in a room with Cara, Dean, Mason, and Marilyn to talk but she said nothing as she sat there staring at her hands. She suddenly felt so nervous she didn’t know what to start with for some reason.

There was a wall clock in the room, and she focused on the clicking sound that came from it, making it impossible to focus on the people that were there because of her.

For some reason, she wanted to shout at her mother and father; because well, that was who they were, make them admit to her and probably to themselves that they had done something bad, and then she wanted to also pull them both into a hug.

Throughout dinner, she had noticed how absent-minded her father was, and how picky her mother had been eating which told her that they were affected by all of these too. Marilyn was even a little bit leaner than the last time she had seen her and that was saying the least because that was the only thing she could see. She wondered what other things she had going on w