Isaiah
Something weird was going on, I could feel it. The adults around me were acting weird, and my spidey senses were tingling.
First, Gabe showed up at my house. I thought he was coming to take me to the barn, even though it wasn’t my day. But instead, he went into the kitchen and had a long, quiet talk with Ann.
I used to go spy, when people started having hushed conversations like that. But somehow I found that eavesdropping made it worse. I might hear what they were saying, but I couldn’t understand what it really meant or what it would mean for me. It just made me feel scared. And in the end, the adults are going to do what they are going to do, and there is nothing a kid like me can do to stop them or change their minds. So I stopped trying, stopped spying, tried to stop carin
