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He opens his hand.
I give him the soda can and lean back against the railing. “I want to say sorry for the other night.” He shrugs, opening the soda. “I mean it. I shouldn’t have said those things to you. It was wrong, and I’m sorry. I want to make sure you know that.”
“I froze. I deserved it.”
“No.” My eyebrows furrow. “You didn’t deserve that. We all make mistakes, and my mistake was yelling.”
“Thank you.”
“For what?” I ask.
“For saying sorry.” He pauses. “I thought you’d still be mad at me, but I’m glad you’re not. I like you,” he says.
I smile. “I like you too. So, are we still friends?”
He smiles back. “Yes.”
“Feel like telling me why you’re hiding in the playground?”
His face falls again. “We’re moving. Mom didn’t tell me until today, but she’s known for weeks.”
“You don’t want to move?”
He shakes his head. “No. I like it here. I like my house. I like my friends. I like this park. If we move, I won’t have any of those things.”
“Ah.” I click my tongue and nod. “I see. That would be hard.”
“It’s awful.”
“Well, that’s one way to look at it,” I say. “Or you could look at it as an adventure.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, it’s kind of like Star Trek. They fly around in their spaceship discovering new places and people. You don’t have a spaceship, but you’ll discover new things too. It’s an adventure just for you.”
“Like Spock?”
I laugh. “Yes, just like Spock?”
“That doesn’t sound so awful.”
“Just think, you might get to discover a brand new park over there.”
He looks around at the playground. “That’s true. I’ll miss this one, though.”
“Well, you can play here when you visit me.” I nudge him with my elbow.
“I can come visit?”
“You better come visit,” I say.
“Okay,” he replies, thinking it through. “Will you come visit me over there too?”
I nod.
“I bet my other friends could come visit too.”
“Of course they can, and you can show them all the fun things you’ve discovered.”
