Sadie
Megan was still shaken up the next day, understandably so. I couldn’t imagine how terrifying it had to have been for her to look outside her window and see a man trying to break into her room. It’s the type of thing that would traumatize a child, and I was so furious that it happened to her, I didn’t know what to do with myself.
I woke up in her bed with her clinging to me, awake and trembling. We spent some time just huddled together until she felt calm enough to get up and get ready for the day. Obviously, she wasn’t going to go to school. For the entirety of the morning, Megan latched onto my side. She didn’t want to be alone, even to go to the bathroom.
If she wasn’t attached to my hip, she was stuck to Cyrus. He appeared at breakfast with an intentionally blank expression. No
