{"id":4303,"date":"2020-05-11T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T21:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2020-05-11T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T21:35:49","slug":"five-01-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4303","title":{"rendered":"Five – 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Thomas Merlin Ambrose’s point of view.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Kailey didn\u2019t leave when our aunt did, not that I had expected her to. I knew that even if I told her to go, she wouldn\u2019t listen. She was stubborn like that and in all honesty\u2014to a level of honesty that I wouldn\u2019t even be with myself\u2014I didn\u2019t really want her to leave anyway. I was just aggravated that she\u2019d made sure the others knew that something had happened to me when maybe, just maybe, I wasn\u2019t sure I wanted them to know. They would all worry, just like always. Sometimes, I just got tired of the worry.<\/p>\n

Still, I couldn\u2019t look at her. I couldn\u2019t look at her, but I could feel her gaze on me as I stared blankly out the window, wishing that my vision would stop twinning on me, wishing that my head would stop throbbing<\/em>. She was right. They were more than just scratches and I knew it. I just didn\u2019t want to think about it.<\/p>\n

Mom and Dad had written about what the camazotzi<\/em> could do, what they could do and other things could do. I didn\u2019t want to think about that or what they could do to me<\/em>. They\u2019d always hurt my father worse than my mother, or so I\u2019d gathered from reading their journals. Maybe that was just a misperception, though. Maybe Mom had just been more careful than Dad. It wouldn\u2019t have surprised me if that was the case, looking back on all of the memories I had of my father. Mom had always seemed to be the more thoughtful of them, though I supposed I could have been wrong about that. I knew that they\u2019d both always just done what needed to be done because it needed to be done. That was just them.<\/p>\n

They\u2019d been gone for five years. It felt like so damn long\u2014too damn long. I missed them more than I ever cared to admit, though I\u2019m sure everyone knew. It couldn\u2019t have been a secret.<\/p>\n

What son wouldn\u2019t miss their parents after they were gone?<\/p>\n

I pressed my lips together and kept staring at the curtains. Even the dim was starting to hurt my eyes, but I wasn\u2019t about to say anything, at least not yet. Kailey just stayed where she was, sitting on the edge of my bed, watching me.<\/p>\n

I wondered how long she\u2019d stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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