I take a seat next to her. She looks up from her book and smiles, but when she sees the look on my face, she closes the paperback. I drop my head in my hands and I start to cry. I can’t help it. I feel like the lives of everyone I love are hanging on this moment, and it’s fucking overwhelming. “Ledger,” my mother says. “Oh, honey.” She wraps her arm around me and hugs me.
