The Ten Best Days of My Life by Adena Halpern

Author:Adena Halpern
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

What the heck is that noise?

What the heck is that?

I keep hearing this rackety tap then a huge tap—what the heck is that?

Oh, it’s Adam.

He looks so adorable. Look at him in his little baseball shirt and cap. The cutie even has cleats on. He’s got some baseball cage set up in his backyard. I’m watching him from my bedroom window as the baseball comes toward him. Great swing. Grandpop would be very impressed. He’s hitting these baseballs clear over his ten-acre yard. He’s really good. You think that’s a heaven thing or could he really hit baseballs out of a ballpark when he was alive?

This is crazy, I should be down there with him. Had it been he who dumped me, I would have set that batting thing so I hit the balls right into all his windows.

He’s such a good person.

I am such an idiot.

“Um batter batter batter, swing batter!” I scream from my window, trying to get his attention in a cute way.

This scares the bejesus out of him, not what I was trying to do, and rather than hitting the ball, the ball (which must have been going ninety miles an hour) clunks him in the head.

“Oh no!” I scream as I run down the stairs and out the door. “I’m on my way!”

By the time I get outside, he’s just hit another ball.

“Are you okay?” I scream, running toward him.

“I’m fine,” he says, hitting yet another ball. “It didn’t hurt.”

“Oh yeah,” I say. “Forgot where we are for a sec.”

Now I’m standing here, outside of his batting cage, not knowing what else to do. He’s ignoring me as he keeps hitting those balls.

“Listen, I want to apologize,” I start.

“I don’t want to hear it, Alex,” he tells me.

“No, I’ve been thinking and I really am sorry. I just got scared. I was being stupid.”

“You know, don’t you think it’s hard for me up here, too?” he says.

“Of course I know it’s hard,” I tell him. “This dying thing was really shocking, and it’s tough getting used to it.”

“So what’s wrong with going through it together?” he asks, not looking at me as he hits another ball.

“I want to,” I tell him. “I really want to, but I’ve got some things that are going on right now and I don’t want to get into it.”

“What could possibly be going on?”

It’s on the tip of my tongue. I want to tell him so badly, but something is stopping me. He’s so good. I’m so rotten.

"I just . . .”

Tell him, you idiot!

“Look, I can’t tell you what’s going on, but hopefully it will all be behind me soon enough.”

“There’s really something going on?” he asks as another ball jolts him in the shoulder.

“Yes.”

“Was it not your time or something?”

“No, this is my time. The MINI Cooper was supposed to hit me. I’m dead, it’s not that . . .”

“So what is it?” he says as another ball hits him in the back.

“Can you

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