You stay here and watch. I'm going to get Mom."And he tore off down the hall, up the stairs noisily, opening the door to Mom and Dad's bedroom. "Mom! ...om! Mom! Wake up! Mom! Mom!" and he began tugging at her arm.Simone cracked an eye at the clock. 1:35. "It's too early, Carl. Go back to bed." Mom! Mom! Wake up! Something's across the street! There's dead bodies! You gotta see it! MOM!"Andy was awake by now. Both he and Simone were struggling out of bed, they grabbed robes, and staggered into. No one called her Livvie but Dad, and I only ever called her Liv to get her attention. “Ellie’s been telling me I made a promise to her.”“And now that you can see clearly, you can’t see how you’d do something like that.” Dad grew somber.“I couldn’t step on your toes like that.” I mumbled. “I--”Dad smacked me in the back of the head. Ellie smacked me in the back of the head. I reached up and waited, staring into my drink, unwilling to turn and make eye contact with my dad. I made a quick swing. I managed to forget Philadelphia for quite a spell.While we lay together, recovering our energies for another romp, Jean told me about Matthew, an ironmaker who had also been indentured but won his freedom by serving in the militia. She sounded like she loved the man, but said he had married a woman who had been on the ship that brought them both to servitude in America."They're living up in Frederick, raising a family," she said, checking on the status of my still-sore member."That's where I. "So they want me to do him in the morning. They say he always talks about me." You think they'll leave you alone till then?"She nodded, and we both heard boisterous noises from the floor above."Come on, lass, untie me. Maybe I can get us out of here."She shook her head. "You're a rebel. They g'me a crown for tricking you."The room was barely lit by flickering light that came through a dirty and barred window high on the wall. The girl squinted at me."What'd they do t'you?" Cuffed me about.