Books 'N Pieces Magazine June 2017

minutes to hug and hold and cry. She wished they could scoop up Stephanie and bring her to their cabin, but there was no way.

Kari knew she would never meet Stephanie.

“Hey squirt,” Sam said, breaking her thoughts. “My turn, Dad said.”

Kari smiled at him. “I love you, Sammy,” she said.”Do you know that?”

Sam nodded. “Always did.” He sat down on the bed.

“Where’d Dad stop at?”

“Smart people...”

“Oh that! Okay. Well we make it to the cabin even though it took us days and days. Melly was sick then and Dad had to carry her the last part which is why Dads are always strongest of all.

And then finally we got here.”

“I used to hate coming here,” Kari said. “I hated hiking. It was so boring.”

“Yeah, but then Dad let you have his old shortwave and you liked it after that.”

Kari shifted on the bed. “The radio is so cool. Every kid should have one.”

“Maybe one day it’ll be a law that every kid has to have a shortwave,” Sam told her.

“So after we got to the cabin,” Kari said, “ you and Daddy went to check on the supplies that we had left last summer.”

“Exactly. Dad was afraid that we had not stocked up like we should have and that there might not have been enough food.”

“And no one else had broken in.”

“Dad had his shotgun by his side and we walked around the outside first, looking for footprints, but there weren’t any.” Sam brushed his long hair back over his head. “Dad told you to see Bits ‘N Pieces Magazine| www.BitsNPieces.com | Page 16 | June 2017