Cranberry Boys by Scudder James Jr

Author:Scudder James Jr [Jr, Scudder James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 978-1-64405-182-5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

SOMETHING WAS knocking on my window. I’d left Bronson and was home alone in my bedroom. Had he forgotten something? Was Bronson locked out of his house? What was wrong? Nothing made sense. It was two in the morning.

More knocking. I pushed back the curtain. Someone in a hoody pressed his forehead to the glass.

“Connor?” I slid open the window.

Connor slipped in the way he used to when the window was our secret entrance. He lowered his hood. One eye was black. Blood crusted the corners of his mouth. He slumped, arms clamped across his chest like he was holding himself up.

“Connor?”

Slowly, slowly, slowly… he started to cry.

“The cotton-candy machine did this?”

I stood on my toes to wrap my arms around him and help him in. He let his head drop to my shoulder. His crying deepened to sobbing. Loud and sloppy, shoulder-drenching sobbing.

I didn’t mean for it to happen. Bronson had made it the most perfect night ever. I didn’t want anything else.

Love? Had Bronson and I said love?

Yup.

But when Connor stopped shaking and his sobs dissolved into long, deep breaths and I helped him into the other bed and ran a warm washcloth over his face to clean the blood and dirt, he pulled me into his arms and everything was familiar and I wanted to make him feel better.

I did. A quick round two in the middle of the night? I finished myself off while I finished him.

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