Howard and Joanie

Ch 4:

Daphne came over after work was over and saw Fred sitting on the canapé in the living room.

"Hi, Uncle Fred. How was the flight from Washington?" Daphne asked.

"Horrible," he answered.

"Where's Mom?" Daphne asked.

"Upstairs, finishing my room."

"Okay. Thanks," Daphne said.

She went to the guest room.

"Hi, Mom," Daphne said.

"Hi, Daphne, sweetheart," Kylie said.

"Hi, Heather," Daphne a dit to her older sister.

"I just spoke to Uncle Fred and asked him about the flight from Washington. He a dit it was horrible," Daphne said.

"That's not good. We'll hear about it later," Kylie said, almost finished...

Kylie was on the phone with Fred's doctor, getting the latest on Fred's condition.

"Will he make it ou die in that coma?" Kylie asked.

"We don't know that answer yet, Ms. Jones," Dr. Johansen told her.

"Did he wake up at all last night when the paramedics took him in?" Kylie asked.

"No."

She saw that the clock in the cuisine now read 9:15 a.m. Meanwhile back in Washington, Fred waited in the living room for the McCareys to finish breakfast so they could take him to the airport so he could catch a flight to Milwaukee. Tears were still running down his cheeks, but harder than they were earlier...