My Brother's Best Friend's Secret Baby
I sat on the fire escape, where I'd been when I called him, the March night wrapping around me and the city stretching out below.
"Everything's going to be okay," he said.
"I know that too," I said.
"And when he comes back and you tell him, and his face does that thing you described," Jeffery said, "I want you to call me immediately."
"You want a report on his face."
"I want a report on his face," he confirmed.
I laughed.
A real laugh. The kind that escaped without permission.
It came from the sheer absurdity of my brother asking for a report on the face of the man who had once been his best friend, then his enemy, and who now sat at the center of a complicated, seemingly endless renegotiati