Chapter 3
A couple of days after my arrival, Annie and Alex decided I needed to go to the park with them. It was only a couple of streets away from Emily and Hank’s cute little suburban home, so we walked there, the three of us.
The day had dawned clear and crisp. I was no longer used to the chill, so I had wrapped my frozen little body in a heavy coat the rest of them had rightly scoffed at. I didn’t take it off, though, despite their scorn.
The two of them walked a few paces ahead of me because as kids are, they were bundles of energy. I supposed I had been like that at their age.
To be honest, I had wanted Emily to go with us. I had very little interaction with children by myself and had only met Annie and Alex the one time they’d come to visit Donald and me a few years back. They w
