A few minutes passed and Henri, Sarah, James and Moses were seated at the table. Sarah wore a mask of confusion and worry. James looked as if he knew the truth about something, but was unsure. Moses looked almost scared for Henri, not to mention heartsick and uncertain about what to do in this situation.
And poor Henri sat with crossed arms (and but only the blanket around him) with a slightly trembling lip and a depressed expression trying to look angry. (Also, of course, they were all furious that he [Henri had gone off to do such a thing as cut himself, but their concern for him was much greater.)
Quietly all tensely ate their breakfast with different thoughts inside their heads.
Sarah was the first to speak.
"Moses," she asked, "did you find anything out?"
"Sorry, Sarah. I told him we'd talk during breakfast," he answered her.
"I do not vant to talk," Henri said in a small voice.
"Come on, Henri. You have to tell sooner or later." James told him.
"I do not." Henri pushed his chair away roughly and stood up. He grabbed a handful of some rolls and left quickly.
A few seconds later, "Well, that went well," James said sarcastically.
Sarah sighed.
"May I go talk to him?" James asked Moses.
"He wouldn't talk to me earlier... okay James, but be gentle with him. He's in a lot of pain right now," he replied.
"Yes, sir," said James.
He went back to the print shop half expecting to find Henri beside the door.
He didn't.
"Hmmm..." James walked around the room looking. As he neared the stairs he heard a slight choking sound from up in his (and Henri's) room.
He quickly walked upstairs into the room. What he saw was Henri crying hard to himself silently. James could tell that he was through the shaking of his small body. Henri's crying caused him to be choking on his rolls while he was eating.
Henri looked up to see James staring at him in alarm and sadness. He gulped a big breath of air to calm himself down, shoved the rolls away, and gazed at an empty wall near him.
James could tell he was still crying a little though. 'He must really be shaken to cry like this,' he thought. James walked up to Henri and lied down in front of him. He looked up at Henri's face. His appearance was so miserable that James stared down at the floor instead waiting for Henri's next move.