I remembered buying the drain cleaner on Sunday morning because the bathroom pipe was clogged.

I remembered pushing the tall plastic bottle all the way to the back, behind the trash can.

“Did I leave the cabinet unlocked?” I asked.

“You know you did,” Daniel said.

“The latch is broken.

I told you to call a repairman three weeks ago.”

Carter wrote all of this down in his notebook, pressing the pen hard into the paper.

He didn’t look up from the lined page to read our faces.