Foolish Fire
“Jack and I had come out here, the scene of so many of our childhood games, in a strange mood of nostalgia. It was the spring of our eighth grade; junior high school was almost over for us.
I was surprised when he’d told me he wanted to come out here. Lately, we’d been growing more and more apart; he seemed to prefer the company of older boys, even high school boys, with whom he had more in common. Ever since we’d beaten up Mark, I sensed a distance in Jack’s feelings.
Now I tried to rev...ive his interest in some of the games we’d played here; for us, the scrubland had once been transformed into a Wild West full of treacherous enemies, a land where almost anything was likely to happen.
To my disappointment, he didn’t seem interested in anything I suggested, peering about and nodding distractedly as if searching for something else to amuse him.
“Hey, come here,” he said. Stepping into a clump of bushes on the bank of the gully he nudged at something on the ground with the tip of his shoe.MoreLess
I was surprised when he’d told me he wanted to come out here. Lately, we’d been growing more and more apart; he seemed to prefer the company of older boys, even high school boys, with whom he had more in common. Ever since we’d beaten up Mark, I sensed a distance in Jack’s feelings.
Now I tried to rev...ive his interest in some of the games we’d played here; for us, the scrubland had once been transformed into a Wild West full of treacherous enemies, a land where almost anything was likely to happen.
To my disappointment, he didn’t seem interested in anything I suggested, peering about and nodding distractedly as if searching for something else to amuse him.
“Hey, come here,” he said. Stepping into a clump of bushes on the bank of the gully he nudged at something on the ground with the tip of his shoe.MoreLess
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