100 Sideways Miles by Smith Andrew

Author:Smith, Andrew
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

THE BOY IN THE BOOK

July fifteenth came.

I was so nervous.

It seemed the preceding week had been all a blurry haze. Although I hadn’t had a seizure since May, the night of the perigee moon—which was now one hundred million miles behind me—I felt disconnected and drained.

And I was so agitated.

My father noticed it. Everyone did.

“Are you okay, son?” he said to me.

Dad looked straight into my eyes. He could see stuff back there, I was certain. I could tell he was trying to see if maybe I’d blanked out and not told anyone about it. I still felt very guilty for not telling him what had happened to me on the living room floor while he was in New York.

We sat together on the morning of my last day as a little boy, the morning before my seventeenth birthday, drinking our coffee on the patio beside the pool. Laika, freshly bathed the evening before, following a complete body massage on a dead jackrabbit, rested her chin on top of my bare foot.

I said, “I’m okay, Dad.”

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