TWO DAYS AFTER...
"Sasha..." callled Richard as he knocked on the door of her bedroom. "Can I come in?"
Sasha had been awake for quite a while now and usually on school days she gets up much earlier. So it was unusual for her to still be in bed at seven in the morning.
Richard needed to find out what was keeping her for so long the moment he didn't see her at the breakfast table at her usual time.
He understood why but he still didn't want her to miss a day at school. He already gave her a day off from school yesterday because of what happened to her mother and he was sure that another day would mean they needed to visit the doctor just to get a note.
"One day absent is excusable but another day needed a doctor's note," the school nurse had reminded him as he called them yesterday.