I repeated Grandpa’s words.
For several seconds, Mom said absolutely nothing. He then stopped the car on the side of the road.
His reaction scared me more than Grandpa’s words.
“Did he tell you exactly that?”
I nodded.
“And he told you not to tell me?”
I nodded again. Mom closed her eyes.
“My God…”
“Mom, what’s going on?”
He turned to me.
“Tonight you’re not going anywhere. You will stay by my side.”
When we got home, Mom called my aunt. From the hallway I could only hear fragments of the conversation.
“…he told Lily…”
Silence.
“Yes. Tonight.”
Then, with a much lower voice, he said:
“I knew this day would come.”
After hearing those words, I couldn’t calm down for the rest of the night. Around eleven o’clock, the doorbell rang.
It was Grandpa. Mom opened the door, but didn’t invite him in.
“Dad, why are you here?”
“I came to find Lily.”
Mom’s face changed.
“No.”
Grandpa looked at her for a few seconds.
“Sarah, you can’t protect her from everything forever.”
“She’s a girl.”
“That’s precisely why I want him to be there tonight.”
I was by the stairs, listening to every word. Then Mom started crying all of a sudden.
“But what if tomorrow…?”
Grandpa interrupted her.
“Don’t talk about tomorrow.”
A chill went through my whole body.
What was going to happen tomorrow?
About half an hour later, Mom suddenly got into my room.
“Dress yourself.”
“Where are we going?”
He remained silent for a moment.
“To Grandfather’s house.”
When we arrived, I was ready for almost anything.
But Grandpa didn’t take us to his bedroom.
Instead, he led us to the small closed porch that was in the back of the house.
There were two mattresses placed on the ground.
One was big.
The other was small.
Next to the window was an old telescope.
I looked at him confused.
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Grandpa smiled.
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“This was what I meant when I asked you if you could sleep by my side.”
Mom turned around, as if she didn’t want me to see the tears in her eyes.
“But why did it have to be a secret?” he asked.
