Christmas in the neighborhood and no one was expecting anything special except for Jackie cooking us brownies to eat at the boulder. While her parents..
I started to read the beaten paperback volume I had hidden away under my pillow after that Christmas Eve. It had been eating away at me that he though..
He was my New Years kiss at midnight that year, and it wasn't some innocent kiss on the cheek. Derek was drunk as a skunk hitting on poor Hailey who w..
Things went on as they always do. Derek and the boys went to the porridge most nights. They always tried to goad Theo into coming. He always refused. ..
With school returning in full force, Theo's classes kept him busy. I didn't get to see him under the powerlines at night and listen to his fables. I w..
Derek took me to Higgins after school the next day to make it up to me. Theo could spend his breaks with us. He sat us at a table in the back with all..
It seemed that I had just fallen asleep when I heard glass shatter. It jolted me awake. The hair on the back of my neck stood on end. Dad wasn't suppo..
He snuck out of my house with my father's clothes and went to get his things for school. He didn't make it there that day. Later I learned the police ..
Theo arrived late to the power lines. He carried the bat and the bags under his eyes from last night along with him. He still wore my father's clothes..