So much has changed since I've wrote an entry. Max is fifteen, Audrey fourteen, and Jack has become national with his remarkable drawings. Then, along with the good news, comes the bad news. Millie has become very ill with polio. Audrey, Scott, and Anna have been deeply touched by this devastating tragedy. It was hard for them to hear that Millie's time on Earth wasn't going to be for a very long time. It was even harder for Thomas, Scott and Anna's second child, to watch his sister slowly die. Yet, even though the doctor states that Millie will not make it, Audrey will not take that information easily. For the past five weeks Audrey hasn't been herself, she's been either crying herself to sleep even thought Jack, Max, and I try to comfort her, and she's been either at the Cook's house, or in her room, with the curtains shut. I've tried to ask Mother for help, but she the first thing she replies with is that "When your father died, you were the exact same way." Then it always accompanied by "Give her time," or "Have Audrey know that you, Jack, and Max are behind her to be a listener or a comfort blanket everyday." I do enjoy Mother's words every day, and take them as vitamins of knowledge. Yet, what I'm worried about the most is that Audrey hasn't been eating as healthful as she should. Yet, what makes me shiver every time I see her walk over to the Cook's house is if what if Audrey is infected with this life threatening disease? I sometimes watch her walk to the house through the kitchen. The feeling of worry is unbearable, words itself cannot describe it. I then feel Jack's comforting hand on my shoulder, and place my own hand on his, turn around, and smile. He gives me a warm smile back, and it makes feel a little better. Max has been a normal teenager, he looks so much like Jack, acts so much like Jack that it isn't even funny. He talks about seeing the world, and looking at it from a different point of view. Usually when he's not drawing in his room, he is either doing chores or being one of the boys, and staying out late. It might just be a Mother's intuition that I have, or maybe just a thought, but I think that Max wants to be a pilot. Yet, I might be wrong. Yet, for Audrey, I don't know what she wants be. Perhaps someone who helps people, or helps teach someone. I might be wrong, though. Well, I suppose I should go, it's getting late, and I believe that Camilla is coming over tomorrow. -Rose
