Tyler
Skylar and I comfort Amber until she falls asleep after her latest nightmare. She snuggles into me and moans happily. I sigh as I move a strand of her hair from her face. It isn’t lost on me that she has yet to say ‘I love you’ to either of us.
Skylar rolls over to face away from us. I can sense he is upset about something, but he won’t say anything. I close my eyes, and before long, I am awakened by knocking on the door.
‘Tyler, Skylar,’ Dad’s deep voice rumbles in my head. ‘Time to get up.’
I groan and pick up my phone from the side table. It’s only five am. I remember Dad had said he would wake us up early. The knocking continues until Skylar rolls out of bed and stumbles to answer it.
“Are you boys up?” Our father asks in an entirely too enthusiastic tone.
“We are now,” Sky
