24. On the day before the surgery they all go to their grandparents’ house and have root beer floats and watch TV and Sleeping Beauty.

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On the day before the surgery they all go to their grandparents’ house and have root beer floats and watch TV and Sleeping Beauty. Amy and Zoe huddle very close together as though the air conditioning is making them cold. After the movie’s over Zoe and their parents get up and start to walk out to the car. Their grandparents stay where they are, sitting on either side of the entertainment center. Amy sits with them until she hears the car doors. She runs to the shut front door and stands on her tiptoes and watches them through the bottom blue square in the stained glass window while they pull out of the driveway and into the street, the glass fogging up except where her nose is pressed against it. Slowly her fingertips slide down the slick groove of the wood.