October 28
“Your dad never made it easy for you,” she said. “He kept changing what he wanted. Never told you what he wanted, right? Then got mad at you when he’d changed his mind.” He nodded. “Well, don’t worry. We’re going to get you out of this.”
“How? We’re stuck here!” Rob said.
“The window,” Jeanne said. “We can get out through there.”
“It doesn’t open anymore,” he sighed. “Hasn’t for years. Besides, we’re on the second floor, and it’s raining.” Sure enough, the patter of the coming storm had started to sound. The rolling thunder was louder now.
“All right, then the door,” she replied. “We can bust it down together.”
“Can you even stand up?” he asked. “Dad got you pretty bad.”
Jeanne started to rise, but her ankles gave out beneath her, and she dropped to the floor with a heavy thud. “Okay,” she said. “We are going to get you out, I promise.”
“Thanks, Jeanne,” he said, “but I think we’re going to have to just deal with this for now until Dad calms down.”
“He’s not going to calm down,” Jeanne said. “Don’t you get it? He’s started hurting you!”
“He’s always like this!” Rob shouted. “Always. It comes and it goes. I just have to sit here and not bug him until Mom comes and lets me out. That’s how it always works.”
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