Pucking Forbidden Claim
“But I needed to see you.”
From the corner of my eye, I catch more movement—neighbors stepping onto their porches, whispers traveling between them, a few kids still staring from a distance. I don’t have to turn around to know that by the time my sisters get home, they’ll already have heard from half the park that their big brother came rolling in like a ghost from another life.
Mom glances over my shoulder, noticing the attention, before sighing and gesturing toward the door. “Come inside before you give the whole neighborhood a heart attack.”