RUBBY

"What's happening?" I repeated, staring at the two cups of ice cream in his hands.

"Where were you?" I asked, my voice shaking with both confusion and suspicion. "You were here before I stepped out with the nurse."

"I am so confused please," he said, his eyes darting from me to Alex, then to my father, and back to me.

"I told you I needed some fresh air; you probably didn't hear me; you did, didn't you?" He said to the nurse who nodded in response.

"I heard him, thought you did ...