Zoe suddenly collapsed to the ground, unconscious. "Sugar ..." she said to Jon. "Why don't you take her upstairs and put her in with your mother so we can finish breakfast uninterrupted?"
"Okay," Jon said, wanting to please her any way he could. He picked up his sister and hauled her upstairs to his mother's bedroom (she weighed a lot more than she looked).
As he placed her onto the bed, his mother approached him. "Jon ..."
