423 He's Gone

Keeley was playing a board game with the family members still at home after the twins went off to prom when she got a phone call from her dad's number.

"Hey, Dad, what's up? Do you want me to send you the pictures I got of the kids all dressed up for prom?" she asked casually.

"This is Robert Hall's daughter, correct?" a sympathetic female voice asked.

Her blood ran cold and she excused herself from the game to speak somewhere more private. Alzheimer's ran in his family and he had begun developing it about three years ago.

It wasn't safe for him to live on his own anymore but he couldn't stay with her on a permanent basis because of his cat allergy. She had been forced to move him to a care center but still visited him every couple of days.

"Yes, this is her. What's going on?" Keeley asked after swallowing hard.