The delivery man called while I was having lunch with my parents and told me to come back alone. He wouldn’t say what they’d found, only that they had stopped moving the bed.
“Sir, don’t bring your mother back here yet.”
I stood up so fast my chair scraped across the patio.
My mother looked at me from across the table.
My father kept eating.
“What did you say?” I asked.
The man on the phone lowered his voice.
“I said come back alone.”
In the background, I could hear wind, footsteps, and another man saying something I couldn’t make out.
I walked away from the table.
“Did something break?”
“No.”
“Did you damage the floor?”
“No.”
“The frame?”
“No, sir.”
I looked back at my parents.
My mother had stopped drinking her lemonade.
She was watching me now.
“Then what’s wrong?”
There was a pause. “The old bed is still where it was.”
I frowned. “Why?”
“We started lifting it.”
“And?”
The man exhaled.
Then said, “That’s when we stopped.”
I waited. He didn’t continue.
“What did you find?”
“I’m not going to explain it over the phone.”
That irritated me. “We’re 40 minutes away.”
“I understand.”
“So tell me.”
Another pause.
Then, carefully, “How long has that bed been in the house?”
I glanced at my parents again.
My father had finally noticed something was wrong.
“A long time.”
“How long?”
“I don’t know. Thirty years, maybe.”
The line went quiet.
Then the man said, “Come back and look for yourself.”
My name is David. I’m 48.
My parents, Harold and Margaret, are in their 70s.
The three of us had been sitting outside a fish place near the beach that Saturday because I had deliberately gotten them out of the house for a few hours.
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