I said: I know.
She closed her eyes.
I sat until she was asleep.
Then I went to find Gabriel.
He was in the kitchen.
He had cleaned up some of the bottles, not all of them, the partial cleaning of someone managing an appearance.
He said: Sara, before you say anything.
I said: Gabriel.
He said: Danny called and wanted to come over. I didn’t know you were coming back early.
I said: I know you didn’t.
He said: I would have set things up differently if.
I said: I know.
I said: that’s the problem.
He said: what is?
I said: that you would have done it differently if you knew I was watching.
He said: that’s not what I.
I said: yes it is. You moved my seventy-year-old mother who is on chemotherapy from her room to an air mattress in the basement because your brother wanted to watch a football game and you thought I wasn’t going to find out for four days.
