Lauren has promised to feed me.
She said it at the table with her hand up like a flag. “I’ll do it. Every night. I promise.”
Everyone said good, and Robert said we’ll see, and I went and sat by my bowl to be ready.
The first night the bowl gets full.
The second night the bowl gets full.
The third night Lauren is upstairs with a book, and the bowl is a bowl, and I sit beside it and look at it until it is dark.
Kathleen is visiting. Kathleen sees everything and cooks the rest.
She does not say anything about the bowl. She fills it, and pats me, and goes back to the roasting pan.
But I see her look up the stairs.
A QUESTION TO TAKE INTO YOUR DAY
“When did what you said and what you did not match this week?”
From the book's “Read it together” prompts.