Cadence and Jack walked off toward the side yard, out of earshot of most anyone who could possibly be attempting to listen. "I'm okay," he said as he stopped near the fence. He was wearing a dark blue suit, and Cadence remembered how that color had always set his eyes off. Today, however, they didn't seem quite as bright as what she remembered, and she wondered if he had, indeed, been crying after all.
"Good, good," she said. "I wish I would have been able to spend more time with all of you this week. I just needed some time alone, you know?"
He nodded. "I understand. You went to your grandma's house for a few days, your mom said?"
"I did. I just went up there and slept, a lot, and visited with my grandma and kind of wrapped my mind around what this would be like, you know, going on wit
