There are no knobs on the oven in the kitchen of Marcel Davis' house in American Fork. A rug sits over burn marks on the hardwood floor in the kitchen. The burgundy carpet is still singed.
Those are the kind of things that are hard to forget, even in the middle of a pressure-filled basketball game. May 10, 2008, is kind of hard to forget.
Marcel Davis, the second-oldest of Rodney and Kim Davis' four children, goes through every day, every American Fork basketball practice, with horrible memories in the back of his mind. Thanks to his quick thinking, those memories of his youngest brother, Matteo, aren't tragic.
Matteo is severely autistic. He can walk but does not use a toilet. He can communicate but does not talk. He doesn't know that it's not OK to gulp down a stranger's drink at a restaurant but he does get excited when he sees Marcel.
