Chapter 23

After sending Kathy off home, I, Mama, and Papa were in the hospital now talking to Ashton who didn’t have a clue about what was just going to happen. Mama sighed and spoke the sentence that she’s been repeating for the past five minutes, “Look, I understand you’re just looking out for your Dad but we need to talk to your family. You will understand. Just give us a chance.” Finally, Ashton seemed like he gave up, “All right, you can go inside but don’t blame me that I didn’t warn you. My family is not really in the best condition right now so it seems like you’ll just have to cope with that.” As Ashton stood aside to give them away, I whispered to him, “Oh trust me, if your family is in a bad condition then it’s just about to get worse.” And here we all go inside.