In My Blood

I feel Cain beginning to wake up. I watch him sit up and look right at me. I look back at him for a little bit. I don’t know what to say at all to him at the moment.

Cain doesn’t say anything at first. He pulls me into his arms and holds me against his body. He pulls away a little bit to look at me in the face. Was that how you grew up? With that sort of parent? He questions me.

I nod. I’m not sure if I can speak. I never met someone who cares this much about how I feel or how I was treated in the past. I am almost faint at the thought of that. I lean in to Cain letting him hold me in a close embrace. I could just sit this for a very long time, but my stomach chose then that it had to vocalize that it is hungry.

“Someone’s hungry,” Dillon laughs. “When are we going to stop and eat?”

“Once we get to the next exit,” Gabe answers. “Then it is Alex’s turn to drive.”

Cain looks at me and laughs silently. He pulls me back towards him without worrying about my vocal stomach. “You will get some food in a minute.”