“A girl like that doesn’t live next door to everyone, you know.”
“Lucky them!” He studied me, long and hard. I said, “What?” but he didn’t flinch.
He just kept staring at me, and I couldn’t take it – I had to look away.
Keep in mind that this was the first real conversation I’d had with my grandfather.
This was the first time he’d made the effort to talk to me about something besides passing the salt.
And does he want to get to know me? No! He wants to know about Juli!
I couldn’t just stand up and leave, even though that’s what I felt like doing.
Somehow I knew if I left like that, he’d quit talking to me at all. Even about salt.
So I sat there feeling sort of tortured. Was he mad at me? How could he be mad at me? I hadn’t done anything wrong!
When I looked up, he was sitting there holding out the newspaper to me.
“Read this,” he said. “Without prejudice.” I took it, and when he went back to looking out the window, I knew – I’d been dismissed.
By the time I got down to my room, I was mad. I slammed my bedroom door and flopped down on the bed,
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