And as I stood at the Loskis’ threshold, it occurred to me that I hadn’t seen Bryce in the longest time.
Sure, we’d both been at school, but I’d been so preoccupied with other things that I hadn’t really seen him.
My heart started beating faster, and when the door whooshed open and his blue eyes looked right at me, it took everything I had just to say, “Here.”
He took the half-carton and said, “You know, you don’t have to give us these….”
“I know,” I said, and looked down. We stood there for a record-breaking amount of time saying nothing.
Finally he said, “So are you going to start riding the bus again?”
I looked up at him and shrugged. “I don’t know. I haven’t been up there since… you know.”
It doesn’t look so bad anymore. It’s all cleared. They’ll probably start on the foundation soon.
It sounded perfectly awful to me. “Well,” he said, “I’ve got to get ready for school. See you there.”
Then he smiled and closed the door. For some reason I just stood there.
I felt odd. Out of sorts. Disconnected from everything around me.
Was I ever going to go back up to Collier Street? I had to eventually, or so my mother said.
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