The following week was pretty uneventful, at least until Friday night. That happened to be Holly’s birthday, so we held a surprise party for her after we finished eating dinner. When Dad was done with his meal, he got up from the table, went into the kitchen, and when he returned he was carrying a cake that he had made earlier in the day, and it had a lighted 1 and 8 on top. Dad, Pop, Dion, Trey, Brandon, and I all started singing Happy Birthday to her, since we were in on this, and the boys qui