She hugs him to her chest as he sobs on. She sits down and cradles him to her chest. Reid motions for me to come over to him. I drop Dorothy and she walks over to where Mama and Luke are seated and curls, sitting herself at their feet. I walk over to Reid and he wraps me in his arms. Cradling me to himself he also sits down and pulls me into his lap. We stay like that just quiet and each person lost in their own thought.
We stay like that till Mama speaks eventually.
“baby, have you eaten anything today at all?” she runs her hand through his hair as she asks.
His handsome face is pale with the exhaustion that came from crying and not having any meal inside of him.
“I can’t eat. I am not hungry.” he shakes his head in denial.
“ well, you haven’t eaten anything all day becaus
