Hi! It’s me! Lily!
It’s morning! You get a bonus post! Are you happy?
Jack was worried about me a bit last night, and I love him for it. It’s been a little hard – does anyone get any rest around here? But he reminded me of that quote from Contact – “The only thing that makes the emptiness bearable is each other”. Sure, bad stuff happens, I hate it, and I don’t know why. But we have each other. I’ve got Jack, and Sabby, and Beth, and the whole gang. And Crystal’s got her parents, and us now (I’m her big sister if she wants one), and the church and the pastor are helping her too. Maybe some people are terrible, but some people are good, and like Mr. Rogers said a long time ago, look for the helpers. Maybe that little girl died in a tornado. But people looked for her and found her body, after the tornadoes left. That counts for something, right? Maybe not enough, but something, anyway.
Sabby says Crystal is probably coming around this morning for school. She says to just treat her normally and let her talk if she wants. School is kind of a fluid thing anymore – sometimes it happens at unexpected times, and sometimes it doesn’t happen at expected times, and that’s okay. I’m looking forward to seeing her. She’s a good kid. I hope she can have a good Christmas, anyway.
Dave did give her father a job, by the way. I don’t know if I ever mentioned this, but Dave owns his own engineering business. He’s out sometimes doing jobs, but he works from home a lot of the time too. He used to go to an office, they tell me, before the virus hit, but after it hit everyone just works from home now unless they have to go out on a job, and he can save all that money he was spending on an office. I guess that’s how Sabby affords the occasional shopping trip with Beth. As you can imagine, their family is in quite a bit of turmoil right now, but they seem to be survivors, I think they’ll be okay. All we can do is be there. He had to talk to the rest of his team to make sure they would be okay with it, but everyone gave the thumbs up, and, well, Bob’s employed now. I guess the church is going to set him up with a place to rent while they get on their feet. I’ll miss having Crystal around as much, but I hope we can keep spending time together.
It’s funny how the world is full of such bad and such good, all at the same time, isn’t it?
I’m going to go run now. I hope Crystal comes over. I really want to give her a hug. I won’t tell her everything will be alright. But I’ll tell her that we’ll all do our best to help everything to be alright. And that’s the important thing. Isn’t it?