and my father followed Chet into the living room. And wasn’t that just dandy?
That left me alone in the foyer with Bryce. He said hi to me and I lost it.
I spun on him, snapping, “Don’t you speak to me! I overheard you and Garrett in the library, and I don’t want to talk to you now or ever!”
I started to walk into the living room, but he stopped me.
“Juli! Juli, wait!” he whispered. “I’m not the bad guy here! That was Garrett. That was all Garrett!”
I glared at him. “I know what I heard.” “No! No you don’t!
I… I was feeling bad about, you know, the eggs and what I’d said about your yard.
I didn’t know anything about your uncle or what kind of situation your family was in, okay? I just wanted to talk to someone about it.”
Our eyes locked for a minute, and for the first time the blueness of his didn’t freeze up my brain.
“I heard you laugh. He made a joke about me being a retard, and you laughed.”
“Juli, you don’t understand. I wanted to punch him! Really, I did! But we were in the library….
“So instead you laughed.” He shrugged and looked miserable and sheepish. “Yeah.”
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