After Tyler left home，my sister got two jobs to do, one to flip hamburgers and the other one to milk the cow. She had her own car and left home too. Now, the family shrank. With Tyler gone, the rest of us children got promoted. Luke became the eldest child and Richard and I became grunts.
My dad took me to the backyard to help him store the metals. He taught me to tell the difference between aluminum and steel. For me, the same place where I and my brothers played all kinds of games became so strange to me. I don’t know the rule in this new world. When I wore a pair of gloves, dad said it’s unnecessary because soon I would get callus. Dad saw I wore a hat, saying it would make it difficult for me to keep a balance. When I bent to pick up metal, a piece of metal knocked me down. It came from my dad flung things without noticing me. When I struggled to stand up and another metal flew toward me. I managed to avoid it, shouting at my dad that I was here.
I was not the only one who was trying to stand feet on the ground. After the accident, my mom suffered from a kind of headache. And she was always forgetful. Sometimes she asked me to prepared breakfast long after my family cleared the table. While she was making medicine, she always forgot whether she had added one kind of liquid or not. This made it difficult for her to do her job as midwife. My dad was not satisfied with her decision, say what if he was sick. My mom argued back, saying what if she forgot what herb she gave the woman while she was laboring. However, she finally convinced herself to continue her job but gradually she didn’t deliver baby by herself instead hiring others to deliver while she was supervising.
Though Tyler left, his influence on me continued. Sometimes while working in the backyard, I imagined what life would be like in college. Maybe it wasn’t so bad as dad said. In my spare time, I would read books as Tyler did in the past. I even had the idea to go to public school.
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