the Irresistible Henry House (2010) by Grunwald Lisa

Author:Grunwald, Lisa [Lisa, Grunwald,]
Format: epub
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
Published: 2011-01-14T19:16:05.437000+00:00

Henry started dancing, keeping the baby's chin on his shoulder and singing along at the top of his hoarse, unused voice:

And I wonder

I wa wa wa wa wonder

Why, why why why why why she ran away...

Henry twirled and spun around the living room, the same room in which he had crawled and opened Christmas presents and curled up like a puppy in the sun, the room in which he'd been handed, like an hors d'oeuvre, from mother to mother.

In a scratchy falsetto, Henry sang on. "I wa wa wa wa wonder ..." And Huck laughed and said "Wa wa wa!"

Henry was sweating when the song stopped, and he was happy to rest during the next number, a sappy Pat Boone tune. Henry stopped singing, and Huck reached up and grabbed Henry's bangs.

"Ouch!" Henry said, and that made Huck laugh.

"No, really! Ouch!" Henry said again.

Huck pulled on Henry's bangs again.

"Cut it out!" Henry said, and he fought the impulse to drop the baby onto the couch--just to get away from those small, grabby hands. How odd, he thought, to have to protect something that he wouldn't have minded hurting. And what was it, he wondered, that was giving him this self-control?

The glee on Huck's face turned into fear, and he squirmed, surprising Henry with his strength.

"It's okay, Bruiser," Henry said. "It's okay."

Huck still looked scared.

"It's okay," Henry said again.

Then the music changed, and Henry started to dance again, to the new song on the radio, and it was only after he had made Huck laugh again that he stopped and heard the words of the song:

Well, just because I'm in my teens

And I still go to school

Don't think that I dream childish dreams

I'm nobody's fool.

Don't mother me, that makes me wild

And please don't treat me like a child.

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