“Can I give you a ride?” “I can walk,” I said.
“Take the ride,” he responded flatly, gesturing to the space on the cart’s bench beside him.
I sat down, and he set off very slowly toward the pool.
“How’s Davis doing?” he asked me.
“Good, I think.” “Fragile—that’s what he is. They both are.”
“Yeah,” I said. “You gotta remember that. You ever lost somebody?”
“I have,” I said. “Then you know,” he said as we approached the pool.
Davis and Noah were sitting next to each other on the same pool lounger, both hunched forward, staring at the patio beneath them.
I was thinking about Lyle saying then you know. I didn’t, not really. Every loss is unprecedented.
You can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really—
just like touching someone else’s body isn’t the same as having someone else’s body.
When Davis heard the golf cart pull up, he turned his head to me, nodded, and stood up.
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