I run to the phone and finally decide to ask someone to help us, so I call 911 or the operator, but the lady’s voice on the phone says only, The number you are trying to reach is not in service, and then I hear the warning-siren busy signal that says, Hang up the phone, you’ve done something wrong, and I realize at last that there is no way out, no one coming to rescue us or to save us or to sit my father down and tell him once and for all that what he’s doing is not right.

