Saturday, the 2nd of October.
"Do you want them?"
"I suppose so..." I had been thinking about trying them anyway, but I just kept delaying. I took them from my mother's hand and put them on a kitchen shelf. And then I left to see Ozzy. And I left my parents. I was going to come back and see the inside of The Black Church in my bathroom - daddy had caused an explosion which set my bathroom on fire. (In case there's anyone who didn't get it, The Black Church also survived a fire - that's why it's black! And I never went inside, but I suppose it's just as black as it is on the outside... and just as black as my bathroom was that night.) Everything else in the house was under a layer of ashes. Including this box of wafers.
What box? Well, it was a blue box that had Family written in the middle, the image of some cocoa wafers below and the image of... a family (I guess) above. I hadn't paid too much attention to it, not while I kept seeing it in supermarkets and not while my mother was showing it to me. But after wiping the ashes off it, I noticed two more things. First...
Saturday, the 2nd of October.
"Do you want them?"
"I suppose so..." I had been thinking about trying them anyway, but I just kept delaying. I took them from my mother's hand and put them on a kitchen shelf. And then I left to see Ozzy. And I left my parents. I was going to come back and see the inside of The Black Church in my bathroom - daddy had caused an explosion which set my bathroom on fire. (In case there's anyone who didn't get it, The Black Church also survived a fire - that's why it's black! And I never went inside, but I suppose it's just as black as it is on the outside... and just as black as my bathroom was that night.) Everything else in the house was under a layer of ashes. Including this box of wafers.
What box? Well, it was a blue box that had Family written in the middle, the image of some cocoa wafers below and the image of... a family (I guess) above. I hadn't paid too much attention to it, not while I kept seeing it in supermarkets and not while my mother was showing it to me. But after wiping the ashes off it, I noticed two more things. First...