PART FIVE
I staggered down for breakfast and stepped into the kitchen, momentarily blinded by the flood of sunshine pouring in through the windows. I saw Mom and Nick sitting at the talbe whispering to one another. I thought that I had interrupted some private moment beteen the two of them. It sort of an open secret now the relationship that had blossomed between them, but it was never discussed. But when I entered they quickly looked over at me and by the expression of their faces I sensed that...