Madison drew a shaky breath.
“I called to tell you that I didn’t ask him to the prom as a joke. I did it so that everyone could finally see him. I specifically chose prom because I knew that’s where he’d feel the smallest. I wanted him to feel big, just for one night. He deserves that. And everyone here loves him tonight. They just didn’t know him before.”
I could not speak.
I just cried quietly into my sleeve.
“Thank you, Madison.”
“No, thank you , Miss Walker, for raising such an incredible young man.”
After that call, I sat there with the phone trembling in my hand.
Suddenly, I understood that everything I had been so afraid of had been the opposite of the truth.
I had spent weeks worrying that Madison wanted to embarrass my son.But she had wanted everyone to finally see him.
