CARL

Whether or not I had the right to get mad at Beverly or not, I was the first person she'd be seeing the moment she stepped into her office. Though I called her, and she promised to talk today, but I arrived a tad bit earlier than I was supposed to.

I needed to know everything and what went wrong so bad that Alma would as much as listen to a word I said. It was scary how fast she was slipping out of my grip- again. I watched Beverly pull up into the driveway and stood to my feet ...