“e oe. Let’s take the fool things off,” Gramps said, removier’s headphones. His voice was firm but warm. He stopped the tape and put the player and headphones ier’s backpack as he walked Peter into his mother’s room. He couldn’t e his mother from the door. All he could e was the bed and the beeping maes and the worried women clustered around the bed.
Gramps stood back as Peter walked around the bed and stood where his mother could e him. He could hear her breathing, slow and wheezy. She tried to lift up her head and greet him. Her hair was gone from one of the treatments the doctors had given her, and her skin ale. Peter could e the shapes of her bones uhe skin. She had some trouble fog her eyes, but when she looked at him she smiled a little. He saw her looking at his face, and her smile slipped a little wheiced the brui under his eye.
She frow the welt and asked, “Why have you been fighting with the other boys again, baby?” Her voice was barely above a whisper.
“e oe. Let’s take the fool things off,” Gramps said, removier’s headphones. His voice was firm but warm. He stopped the tape and put the player and headphones ier’s backpack as he walked Peter into his mother’s room. He couldn’t e his mother from the door. All he could e was the bed and the beeping maes and the worried women clustered around the bed.
Gramps stood back as Peter walked around the bed and stood where his mother could e him. He could hear her breathing, slow and wheezy. She tried to lift up her head and greet him. Her hair was gone from one of the treatments the doctors had given her, and her skin ale. Peter could e the shapes of her bones uhe skin. She had some trouble fog her eyes, but when she looked at him she smiled a little. He saw her looking at his face, and her smile slipped a little wheiced the brui under his eye.
She frow the welt and asked, “Why have you been fighting with the other boys again, baby?” Her voice was barely above a whisper.
Peter shrugged.
“Peter?” she prompted. He didn’t want to say anything to worry her, but Peter had never been able to keep anything from his mother. They were a team, especially since his father wasn’t around.