Eralia’s POV
We didn’t lose a shoe this morning; it's just another lie that I feel that I need to tell to protect us all. In reality, we overslept because it took me hours to get the kids calm enough to return to their beds and fall asleep after Laurie slammed her way out of our trailer last night. Tanner was inconsolable, crying in my arms, calling out for our mother over and over again. He's too young to understand that she has problems, that she isn't how a mother is supposed to be, he only knows that he wants her and she’s not here with him . . . again.
Liberty was openly scared to, though she tried to hide it for the sake of our brothers. Her whispered admission, only being voiced as I finally tucked her into bed below her finally sleeping brothers. Admittance in the darkness that s
