All Grown Up
“Oh come on, you’ve seen worse than this. Remember that time I fell out of that pine tree and punched a hole in my arm?”
I couldn’t help giggling at the memory of it. Of course, the sight of pine needles sticking out of his arm had been disgusting, but it was the way that he had marched inside while his dad had friends over for a Sunday afternoon football game and barbecue and held up his arm declaring that something was wrong. The faces on the adults, staring in disbelief at how calm Jesse was, had had me in stitches.
Jesse winked at me and then lifted me up into his arms again. “Come on,” he said. He paused as we left the back room. “Hey, Joe, can you close up this afternoon? I want to get
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