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They start to walk out, and Lucas takes his drink but drops his straw. I bend down, but so does he, accidently hitting the cap off my head. The long pieces of hair not secured in my braid fall out, and we squat there, meeting each other’s eyes. I look at him through the locks hanging over my face.
He’s not smiling anymore, and I can’t breathe again.
I pick up the cap. “Here. You said to hold it until you got back.”
I hand it to him.
But he shakes his head, gently pushing the hat back to me. “Hang on to it for a little while longer. I’ll get it before I leave.”
So, I’m going to see him once more before he goes?
I rise and so does he. “Goodnight,” I say.
I turn and leave, resisting the urge to look back at him, because my brothers are watching, and I already know what they’ll think.
Lucas Morrow and I are too old to play together now.
