Fun For Real
272 Words
It turned out the horn honking was the measured vision of the day to come or the day gone by. Patrick never would have admitted it, but he respected his sister who was seven seconds older than Patrick with the better power of telekinesis. The advantage of this power was that for better or worse she knew what everyone was thinking all the time which could get extremely complicated if Penelope was honest. The night Renee died; Penelope felt all the pain Renee was feeling especially in the stomach because her stomach took most of the impact. It was a miracle that the twins lived. Given Renee’s injuries, the guilt Noah felt was insurmountable.
He should have insisted Renee stay, but those mood swings were serious enough that she would leave for her mother’s place without so much as a word to Noah. She was an army brat, a nomadic life made more sense to her than a traditional life with Noah and the kids scared her..Penelope was right about one thing: Renée’s parents blamed him for Renee’s death, which he knew was going to happen.
The twins played their part in their grandparents’ game. The death announcement mentions that they were orphans when they knew better. The twins would keep coming to therapy, they were still grieving their mother. Patrick would experience the intermittent burst of anger, while Penelope cried herself to sleep and when she wasn’t crying the nightmares kept her awake. Noah’s children were suffering and there wasn’t much of anything Noah could do bebecause he was suffering from the reality of an injunction to treatment for the twins.
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