I walked into church holding both my Daddy and Dr Bones' hands. I liked doing things with Daddy and Dr Bones. Dr Bones told me a secret before we left home, she said she was going to watch me and do what I do in church because she does not know what to do. I was excited cuz I got to show a grownup how to behave in church. I knew Daddy would be proud of me.
I led them to our regular pew and sat down between Daddy and Dr Bones. Dr. Bones watched everything like me and it was kinda like Simon Says cuz everything I did she did too. Daddy kept looking over at her smiling. I hadn't seen him smile at all this whole weekend until she came over and fixed him and made his bad dreams stop and his smiles come back.
At the end of church the Priest said something about a special service on Thursday night for the seventh anniversary of 9-11. There have been more anniversaries than I have even been alive! It must have been really bad to have happened so long ago and still make all the grownups so sad. I looked up at Daddy and he had tears in his eyes, I was scared that he was going to be sad again so I looked over at Dr Bones and saw that she had reached her arm around and put her hand on Daddy's shoulder. I knew that my Daddy would be okay as long as Dr Bones was with him.
Sometimes I think grownups are weird. My Daddy acts like loves Dr Bones and Dr Bones acts like she loves Daddy but whenever people ask who Dr Bones is Daddy always says his partner instead of his girlfriend. But he has had a bunch of dumb blond ladies who he says is his girlfriends but he never lets them come over at night when I am there. I have only seen them at the park one or two times and then I never see them again. I don't know what the difference is but Mommy says it is because Daddy and Dr Bones are too dumb to see what everyone else does. When I ask what that means she just tells me someday I will understand. I think it is really just grownups being silly.
After we walked out of the church I asked Daddy if we could go to the park but he said we had to do something else first. That I needed to learn what 9-11 was and why it was important to so many people. He said he even called Mommy and asked if I could stay for an extra day so that he could show me. Usually Mommy says no but this time she said yes.
"Daddy is Dr Bones going to go with us?" I asked. I didn't want to go anywhere without Dr Bones because Daddy needed her.
Daddy looked over to her and she nodded. "Ya Buddy she is coming with us." He told me as we climbed into the car. We got onto the freeway and drove a really long way. Daddy put my little movie player in and Dr Bones sat in the back with me and we watched Finding Nemo and Lion King before we got to the parking lot.
"Okay Buddy we are here. We have to walk the rest of the way." He said with a sad look in his eyes.
"Dr Bones will you hold my hand?" I asked walking over to her. She took my hand and smiled.
"I will hold your hand if your Daddy lets me hold his too." She answered and Daddy smiled and took her hand.