Just before she fell asleep, she said, “Well, if you’re going to smoke, crack the window at least.”
Which made me start laughing again. “Charlie, smoking. I can’t believe it.”
Which made me laugh harder, and I said, “I love you.” And my sister said, “I love you, too. Just stop it with the laughing already.”
Eventually, my laughing turned into the occasional chuckle, and then it just stopped.
I looked back and saw that my sister was asleep. So, I started the car and turned on the heater, so she would be warm.
That’s when I started reading the book Bill gave me. It’s Walden by Henry David Thoreau,
which is my brother’s girlfriend’s favorite book, so I was very excited to read it.
When the sun went down, I put my smoking pamphlet on the page where I stopped reading and started driving home.
I stopped a few blocks from our house to wake up my sister and put the blanket and pillow in the trunk.
We pulled into the driveway. We got out. We went inside. And we heard our mother and father’s voices from the top of the stairs.
“Where have you two been all day?” “Yeah. Dinner’s almost ready.”
My sister looked at me. I looked at her. She shrugged.
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