When Saving Is Killing
Instead, she knelt down with agonizing slowness, placing the notebook gently on the grass, right next to a fresh, unopened pack of glittery star stickers.
"Nova, sweetheart... Mom didn't touch Leo's medicine today," she whispered, her voice terrifyingly light and hollow.
"I checked the prescription label first. I smelled it, too. I didn't let anyone make a mistake."
Dad stepped forward and laid a bundle of white daisies on the grass.
Leo knelt right beside the headstone, taking his task very seriously as he pressed a star sticker onto the floral wrapping paper.
A sharp autumn breeze swept through the cemetery, causing the edge of the sticker to curl upward.