Ethan considered that.
“Okay.”
He picked up his backpack.
“Then I’m going to science class.”
We watched him walk down the hallway with his teacher.
I’d never felt so proud and frightened at the same time.
That evening, Ethan told us about an experiment with magnets.
He demonstrated it using refrigerator magnets and a paper clip.
For the first time all day, he sounded like the excited boy who’d come home Monday.
