Keeping Score
Instead I fumbled in the back pocket of my shorts, pulling out my phone.
"Lisa and Joe Taylor. Sheri and Mark Wellman. They're in my contacts." With shaking fingers, I punched in my security code and handed the phone to the closest man. "Call them. Lisa and Joe Taylor. Sheri and Mark Wellman."
My words, those names, finally penetrated my mother's stupor, and she moved, wrapping her arms around her middle and emitting a loud, high-pitched keening that I was certain I'd hear to the end of my days. I clapped both hands over my ears, curling onto myself and dropped to my knees, screwing shut my eyes and swan-diving into oblivion.
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