Hold Fast
“Most summers are over before you knows it and you’re back at school with hardly enough time to stop and think. But that summer dragged on and on.
And then Sunday, the second day of September, there I was at the Irving station on the highway waiting for the bus to come. The three of them came to see me off. The waiting was the part that I couldn’t stand. If we could a got there just as the bus pulled in, and me got aboard and went on, it would a been okay. But, of course, Aunt Flo had to make su...re we was there in plenty of time. So we ended up waiting for twenty minutes.
Perhaps it wouldn’t a been so bad except for Brent. All along he hadn’t been saying much. Then with about five minutes before the bus was due to come, there he was off to one side by himself, staring at the road and blinking water out of his eyes. He tried to keep from having to look at me.
I went over to him. I might a known that was going to happen. “Look,” I told him, “you’re not goin to mind it once I gets gone.”MoreLess
And then Sunday, the second day of September, there I was at the Irving station on the highway waiting for the bus to come. The three of them came to see me off. The waiting was the part that I couldn’t stand. If we could a got there just as the bus pulled in, and me got aboard and went on, it would a been okay. But, of course, Aunt Flo had to make su...re we was there in plenty of time. So we ended up waiting for twenty minutes.
Perhaps it wouldn’t a been so bad except for Brent. All along he hadn’t been saying much. Then with about five minutes before the bus was due to come, there he was off to one side by himself, staring at the road and blinking water out of his eyes. He tried to keep from having to look at me.
I went over to him. I might a known that was going to happen. “Look,” I told him, “you’re not goin to mind it once I gets gone.”MoreLess
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