Person X identifies Cyn as the target, I don’t know. Maybe being his girlfriend was her only crime. Maybe Cyn’s parents can hang on to their daughter as they knew her. Maybe I can too.
Sometimes, when I dream, Cyn is laughing at something. Her hair is loose like it was that night, like a dark sea on her shoulders. She never looks at me in my dream, but I wake up glad that she looked happy.
Livy pats my cheek. “Uncle Daniel, read!” She puts a book into my hands.
I look at the book. “Livy, we’ve read this one about nineteen times.”
She jabs her finger at the cover. “Cinderella is my favorite.”
Livy has stopped asking about Cyn. I told her that Cyn moved away too, and that’s why we wouldn’t see her again. She accepted my story, and why wouldn’t she? Or maybe she knew I was lying and let me have the fantasy. Either way, she believes in me, and I take a lot of strength from that.
I open the book to the first page. “Okay, but I just have to say, the princess should have worn shoes that stayed on her feet.”
“Shhh,” she says. “Don’t tell me what happens.”
Sometimes, when I dream, Cyn is laughing at something. Her hair is loose like it was that night, like a dark sea on her shoulders. She never looks at me in my dream, but I wake up glad that she looked happy.
Livy pats my cheek. “Uncle Daniel, read!” She puts a book into my hands.
I look at the book. “Livy, we’ve read this one about nineteen times.”
She jabs her finger at the cover. “Cinderella is my favorite.”
Livy has stopped asking about Cyn. I told her that Cyn moved away too, and that’s why we wouldn’t see her again. She accepted my story, and why wouldn’t she? Or maybe she knew I was lying and let me have the fantasy. Either way, she believes in me, and I take a lot of strength from that.
I open the book to the first page. “Okay, but I just have to say, the princess should have worn shoes that stayed on her feet.”
“Shhh,” she says. “Don’t tell me what happens.”
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