She hung her head. “But I got too scared.” He pulled himself around until he was sitting beside her.
They watched P. T. swimming across, the current carrying him too swiftly, but he not seeming to mind.
He climbed out well below the crab apple and came running back to where they sat.
“Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don’t have to be ashamed.”
He saw a flash of Leslie’s eyes as she was going in to the girls’ room to see Janice Avery.
“Everybody gets scared.” “P. T. ain’t scared, and he even saw Leslie...”
“It ain’t the same for dogs. It’s like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”
She looked at him in disbelief. “But you weren’t scared.” “Lord, May Belle, I was shaking like Jello.”
“You’re just saying that.” He laughed. He couldn’t help being glad she didn’t believe him.
He jumped up and pulled her to her feet. “Let’s go eat.” He let her beat him to the house.
When he walked into the basement classroom, he saw Mrs. Myers had already had Leslie’s desk taken out of the front of the room.
Of course, by Monday Jess knew; but still, but still, at the bus stop he looked up,
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