Eli:
There was no beeping when I woke up. There was no happy numbness that you should after being shot. There was no bright lights in my sleep and me deciding I needed to come back home. It was like sleeping for a really long time and then just waking up. Birds chirped outside my open window and I raised my head to look around the sunlit room. I knew almost instantly where I was. If the cozily decorated room wasn’t a huge give away the tall this woman standing in the room with her arms crossed while she leaned against my dresser was.
My mother stood approximately five foot nine with curls the same shade as Cammi’s falling down her back, and bright eyes boring into your soul. Needless to say, us kids got her eyes. Her thin frame didn’t give away that she had had three kids and was well on
