Eli had pranked him TWICE this morning Romy decided to give him a little payback by throwing a rubber eraser from his backpack at him The rubber eraser bounced off Eli’s head and hit their mother in the bulls-eye of her hair bun What in the BOYS You are too old to be playing around like little children You could’ve caused me to crash into another car Their mother fussed about safety before adding You both need to be much more responsible Romy I expect you to be the man of the house while your father is away Their father was in the Army and was overseas for the next month Romy missed him like crazy They all did It was likely their mother was about to ground them anyway so Romy started to say that she should let them ride the bus for a variety of reasons They weren’t spending much quality time together in the car anyway But he couldn’t get a word out because his lungs felt tight Romy (cid:75)(cid:68)(cid:71)(cid:3) (cid:68)(cid:86)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:80)(cid:68)(cid:15)(cid:3) (cid:90)(cid:75)(cid:76)(cid:70)(cid:75)(cid:3) (cid:80)(cid:68)(cid:71)(cid:72)(cid:3) (cid:76)(cid:87)(cid:3) (cid:71)(cid:76)(cid:73)(cid:191)(cid:70)(cid:88)(cid:79)(cid:87)(cid:3) (cid:87)(cid:82)(cid:3) (cid:69)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:68)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:3) (cid:86)(cid:82)(cid:80)(cid:72)(cid:87)(cid:76)(cid:80)(cid:72)(cid:86)(cid:17)(cid:3)(cid:49)(cid:82)(cid:90)(cid:3)(cid:90)(cid:68)(cid:86)(cid:3)(cid:71)(cid:72)(cid:191)(cid:81)(cid:76)(cid:87)(cid:72)(cid:79)(cid:92)(cid:3)(cid:82)(cid:81)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:82)(cid:86)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:76)(cid:80)(cid:72)(cid:86)(cid:17)(cid:3)(cid:3) Romy’s mother pulled into the parking lot at 8
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