He’s never interviewed. He doesn’t seem to be online. I’ve written him a bunch of letters asking what happens to everyone,
but he never responds. So... yeah.”
I stopped talking because Augustus didn’t appear to be listening. Instead, he was squinting at Isaac.
“Hold on,” he mumbled to me. He walked over to Isaac and grabbed him by the shoulders.
“Dude, pillows don’t break. Try something that breaks.”
Isaac reached for a basketball trophy from the shelf above the bed and then held it over his head as if waiting for permission.
“Yes,” Augustus said. “Yes!” The trophy smashed against the floor, the plastic basketball player’s arm splintering off, still grasping its ball.
Isaac stomped on the trophy. “Yes!” Augustus said. “Get it!” And then back to me,
“I’ve been looking for a way to tell my father that I actually sort of hate basketball, and I think we’ve found it.”
The trophies came down one after the other, and Isaac stomped on them and screamed
while Augustus and I stood a few feet away, bearing witness to the madness.
The poor, mangled bodies of plastic basketballers littered the carpeted ground:
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