Two Cops Showed Up the Morning After He Ran Off

Dana. I’m Officer Dugan. This is Officer Merrill. We just need to make sure you’re okay.”

Dana looked past him to the street, then to me.

“Do I have to go with them?”

That did it.

That one sentence.

Nothing about Ethan leaving with my friend had made me cry. Not the text. Not the bills. Not the cops.

But hearing that child ask me that from my hallway, in continue reading …