Dare Me
“Colette French,” Beth tells me. “I have contacts.”
“Beth,” I say. I know this tone, I know how things start.
“I don’t have anything to report yet,” she says, “but be ready.”
Like bamboo slowly sliding under fingernails. She has started.
But Beth also grows easily bored. That’s what I have to remember.
I am glad, then, when Beth seems to have found something—someone—else to do.
Monday morning, the recruiting table is struck in the first-floor hallway, by the language labs.
The posters blare re...d, the heavy ripple of the flag insignia.
Discover Your Path to Honor.
Recruiters, out for fresh, disaffected-teen blood.
“Who needs cheer?” Beth says. “I’m enlisting.”
They came last year too, and always sent the broadest-shouldered, bluest-eyed Guardsmen, the ones with arms like twisted oak and booming voices that echo down the corridor.
This year, though, they have Sergeant Will, who is entirely different. Who, with his square jaw and smooth, knife-parted hair, is handsome in a way unfamiliar to us.MoreLess
“Beth,” I say. I know this tone, I know how things start.
“I don’t have anything to report yet,” she says, “but be ready.”
Like bamboo slowly sliding under fingernails. She has started.
But Beth also grows easily bored. That’s what I have to remember.
I am glad, then, when Beth seems to have found something—someone—else to do.
Monday morning, the recruiting table is struck in the first-floor hallway, by the language labs.
The posters blare re...d, the heavy ripple of the flag insignia.
Discover Your Path to Honor.
Recruiters, out for fresh, disaffected-teen blood.
“Who needs cheer?” Beth says. “I’m enlisting.”
They came last year too, and always sent the broadest-shouldered, bluest-eyed Guardsmen, the ones with arms like twisted oak and booming voices that echo down the corridor.
This year, though, they have Sergeant Will, who is entirely different. Who, with his square jaw and smooth, knife-parted hair, is handsome in a way unfamiliar to us.MoreLess
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