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“I’ll get you one and have someone bring it to Wes and Hadley’s,” I said. “That way we can FaceTime.”
“Can I see my mom?”
“Hopefully soon,” I said. “You want any more pizza?”
He shook his head.
“Okay, let’s clean up and then we’re going to do something fun.”
“What?”
I picked up his paper plate, stacked it on mine and then tossed them both in the trash.
“Have you ever been to a trampoline park?” I asked him.
“I’ve been to a park. It had a really big slide.”
“I think you’ll like this place. We get to bounce on trampolines. You’ll either get to see me do a backflip or kick myself in the face trying to do one.”
Joey laughed.
“Which one would you rather see?” I asked him, grinning. “The backflip or me kicking myself in the face.”
“Kicking yourself in the face,” he said, laughing harder.
I’d put a smile on his face, and that was a win. If it made him laugh like that, I’d kick myself anytime.
* * *
“What’s with the limp?”Nash said to me in a low tone the next morning as I sat down next to him on the bus that was taking the team to the airport for our road trip.
“It’s nothing,” I whispered. “Drop it.”
“It’s not nothing if I noticed it. Did you hurt your ankle or something?”
I glared at him. “Are you capable of shutting the fuck up? Have you ever, just once in your life, closed your giant face hole for five full minutes?”
“My giant face hole? There’s a porn title in there somewhere.”
I rolled my eyes, tired from a long night of Joey waking me up multiple times to tell me he couldn’t sleep.
“I saw a good one the other day,” he said, smirking. “Smoking Cracks.”
“You saw the title or actually watched the movie?”
He shrugged. “It was noSperminator. Didn’t merit a full viewing.”
Nash collected funny porno titles like other people collected stamps.Pulp Friction. Throbin Hood. Sorest Rump. We’d heard them all, more than once.
“Seriously, what’s up with the ankle?” he said.
“It’s fine. I tweaked it at the trampoline park last night, but once it’s taped, it won’t be a problem.”
He looked confused, but then awareness dawned on his face. “You took Joey there.”
“Yep.”
“And?”
