“Thanks,” she said without smiling. “Chet did most of it.”
Chet? I thought. Chet? What was she doing, calling my grandfather by his first name?
“Look, Juli,” I said, trying to get on with why I was there. “I’m sorry for what I did.”
She looked at me for a second, then went back to watching the water spray across the dirt.
Finally she said, “I still don’t get it, Bryce. Why didn’t you just tell me?”
“I… I don’t know. It was dumb. I should have. And I shouldn’t have said anything about the yard, either. It was, you know, out of line.”
I was already feeling better. A lot better. Then Juli says, “Well, maybe it’s all for the better,”
and starts bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet, acting more like her old self.
“Doesn’t it look great? I learned so much from Chet it’s amazing. You are so lucky. I don’t even have grandparents anymore.”
“Oh,” I said, not knowing what to say. “I do feel sorry for him, though. He sure misses your grandmother.”
Then she laughs and shakes her head, saying, “Can you believe it? He says I remind him of her.”
“What?” “Yeah,” she laughs again. “That’s what I said. But he meant it in a nice way.”
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