Cancer Part 5

I just came home from internship, my father was sitting at the back table. He said hello to me. I put my shoes away and Mom sat in the front room. She wasn't supposed to come home until tomorrow, but the doctor let her go earlier. She scared me quite a bit by not saying anything the whole time I was in the back room. You see, we have one of those Z-shaped rooms, so you can't see the front room from the kitchen, where the back door is. And that's where my mother was sitting.