I did not have anything for that.

I drove home to Modesto and I sat in my truck in my own driveway for about twenty minutes and then I went inside and did not tell anybody anything, which is what I do, and which is how we got to Friday night.

Part Nine: Six Different Mothers

There is a group text.

There has been a group text since 2018 and it is called SANDOVAL SITUATION ROOM, which was Solveig at fourteen, and it has never been renamed.

I am not in it.