“How did your father keep you separated at night?”
“He put a f*****g alarm on my bedroom door. Tiny little thing that runs on a watch battery and squeals like a smoke detector. Couldn’t open my door at night. Couldn’t even take a piss without waking everyone in the house.”
“But the nightlight you gave her helped? Kept her monster away?”
“Yeah. He’d scream at her if she tried to leave her light on at night, but he didn’t know about the nightlight.”
“And then?”
Donny could hear renewed excitement in Rudy’s voice. They were finally getting to the good part.
“One night I woke up and heard him yelling at her. He decided to check on her and found the nightlight. He’d gotten a little nuts about us by then. He took everything we did as an act of defiance, including Sissy’s nightligh
