He looked up. It was just a tree. But he could swear that it also wasn’t.
“CONOR!” His grandma was running from the direction of the church,
and he could see her car parked on the road beyond, its lights on, its engine running.
He stood as she ran to him, her face filled with annoyance and relief and something he recognized with a sinking stomach.
“Oh, thank God, thank GOD!” she shouted as she reached him. And then she did a surprising thing.
She grabbed him in a hug so hard they both nearly fell over. Only Conor catching them on the tree trunk stopped them.
Then she let him go and really started shouting. “Where have you BEEN?!” she practically screamed.
“I’ve been searching for HOURS! I’ve been FRANTIC, Conor! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?”
“There was something I needed to do,” Conor said, but she was already pulling on his arm.
“No time,” she said. “We have to go! We have to go now!”
She let go of him and actually sprinted back to her car, which was such a troubling thing to see,
Conor ran after her almost automatically, jumping in the passenger side
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