ELIJAH’S POV:The question landed differently than I expected. I had been preparing for something easier, a question about whether there was more trouble coming, whether the building fire was going to affect our lives, whether their mother was going to be okay. Those I had answers ready for. But that question, direct and quiet and completely without any kind of judgment in it, caught me off guard in a way that very few things catch me off guard anymore.I looked at him for a moment.Then I said, "Yes. A little bit."Andrew nodded like that was a perfectly reasonable answer. Amelia, beside him, reached over and took her brother's hand without even looking at him, which they did sometimes, this automatic reaching for each other, and every time I saw it I felt something in my chest that I did not have a proper word for."What are you scared of?" Andrew asked.I thought about how to answer that honestly without giving him more than he needed to carry. "I am scared," I said slowly, "becaus
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