My Brother Said One Sentence in the Bank Lobby

our family group chat. Then again the following week. Then again the night before.

Lucy’s operation is on the 11th. She’s scared. If anyone can stop by or even send her a message, it would mean everything.

Nothing.

No reply from my mother.
No response from my father.
Not even a lazy thumbs-up from my brother, Derek.

Just silence.

The intentional kind.

My parents continue reading …