"Yeah."
"How about those kids you met last week
? Were they nice?"
"Fine, fine. Jack hung out with me a lot."
"That's so great, sweetie. What about that boy Julian?"
I thought about that Darth Sidious comment. By now it felt like that had
happened a hundred years ago.
"He was okay," I said.
"And the blond girl, what was her name?"
"Charlotte. Mom, I said everyone was nice already."
"Okay," Mom answered.
I honestly don't know why I was kind of mad at Mom, but I was. We crossed
Amesfort Avenue, and she didn't say anything else until we turned onto our
block.
"So," Mom said.
"How did you meet Summer if she wasn't in any of your classes?"
"We sat together at lunch," I said.
I had started kicking a rock between my feet like it was a soccer ball, chasing it
back and forth across the sidewalk.
"She seems very nice."
"Yeah, she is."
"She's very pretty," Mom said.
"Yeah, I know," I answered. "We're kind of like Beauty and the Beast."
I didn't wait to see Mom's reaction. I just started running down the sidewalk after
the rock, which I had kicked as hard as I could in front of me.
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