The Corn Husk Experiment by Andrea Cale

Author:Andrea Cale [Andrea Cale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2018-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

HENRY

The Shy One

When Henry’s grandmother picked him up from school, the boy didn’t feel much like talking. He quietly settled into the family car and strapped the seatbelt across the unstylish green button-up shirt that had earned him the nickname of Polly Ester that morning.

“See ya, Polly,” shouted a classmate who was waving wildly at Henry from the other side of his car window.

The glass muffled the noise enough to mute the words for the elder woman’s aging ears. Henry felt grateful for that.

“What did that boy just say?” she asked.

“I don’t know, Grandma. Can we please go home?”

“Of course.”

When the pair made their way into their Brockton apartment, the air in the old building felt heavy and awkward. Henry went straight to his room without a word, as though he were being punished. For this eleven-year-old boy, punishment never came from his mother or grandmother, guardians who secretly dared to wish he would act up just once. His punishment didn’t come from the father he didn’t know. It always came from the kids at school.

Folded neatly on his bed were the clothes that had been much dirtier and more wrinkled that morning before school. They were washed, dried, and organized now with a note from his mother on top of Henry’s favorite University of Boston sweatshirt.

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