Jack and Melanie...
They ordered pizza and pasta, which were delivered to them inside the RV. They ate like a happy family; Lizzie was asking so many curious questions about everything, and Jack indulged her. Melanie smiled when Lizzie went to her father’s lap, and moments later she was asleep.
Jack carefully laid Lizzie on her bed and sat on her bed, watching her sleep. Thunder burst through the air louder than shotgun blasts, lighting up the sky again and again. After a long summer, dark clouds offered the expectant promise of rain, a farmer's dream. The wind shifted to the north, the temperature fell ten degrees, and rain began to fall in torrents. The sky darkened to darkness, as the wind tossed the parked cars back and forth.
She covered her ears during a lightning storm. The next
