Wonder

over to him, but then I thought maybe he was whisper-crying because
he didn’t want me or anyone else to hear him. So I walked out and
went to Via’s room, and I saw Mom lying next to Via on the bed, and
Mom was whispering to Via, who was crying.
So I went to my bed and put on my pajamas without anyone telling
me to and put the night-light on and turned the light off and crawled
into the little mountain of stuffed animals I had left on my bed
earlier. It felt like that all had happened a million years ago. I took
my hearing aids off and put them on the night table and pulled the
covers up to my ears and imagined Daisy snuggling with me, her big
wet tongue licking my face all over like it was her favorite face in the
world. And that’s how I fell asleep.