Chapter 32

Looking at the children sad about something had me wondering if they had gotten hurt while in school.

“Hey, did anyone hurt you?” I asked, getting defensive. “Tell me and I will beat them myself.”

They all shook their heads in unison as the suspense started to kill me.

“Then what is it?” I asked impatiently. “What is the matter with you? Why are you so sad?”

Landon inhaled in his childish manner which sometimes I found hilarious how he tried to behave like an adult while he was only a child. He was the most outspoken during times like this.

“Is the president our father?” he piped up begging me to widen my eyes in shock. I had not expected that to be his question or answer. “Is he the one who does not want us?”

I froze up after that question hit me with my brain trying to figure out a better answer for him.

Why would he ask me that question? What had happened while he had been in school? Was that how they all felt and was that what was making them unhappy?

I started to think that mayb