we can fly back to colorado together , i said . i wnated jonas to undrstand that he could change the day to day rules of our relationship if he needeed to , but that any shortterm evolution he threw at me wouldn't change my commitment to him .
" maybe ....i was , you know ...." he kicked the rock and skipped quickly ahead to catch up with it . i lenghthened my stride a little so i could keep up . he went on ," maybe ican ....i was just thinking ....i could fly back ...by myself .i'm old enough , i think .aunt kim will make sure i get on the right palne ." he swung his leg extra hard and whacked the stone a good fifty feet down the lane .
no skipping that time . he ran after it in full sprint .
the kid had speed . who knew ? you could have used a calendar to time his mother in the hundred meter dash . peter , jonas's birth father , had beeen nimble . jonas mu8st have gotten his dad's quickness .
" maybe you can ," i said to his back ." should we wait and see ...... how feel about it a couple more days ? there 's no hurry ."he pulled to a stop when he reached the stone , turned toward me , bit his lower lip . and looked at me eyes ." yeah . let's . " he waited for me to reach him .
i said ." you like your cousin , don't you ?"
he smiled and nodded .
i got chills . hey , adrienne . maybe they are'nt dweeds . who'd have thunk it ?
on the train back into the city later that night i considered many things . i wondered whetther i should have acquieced to marty 's insistence that jonas make an extented visist east that first summer , so soon after his mother's death . i wondered whether jonas's newfound attachment to his mother's extented family was artificial or real . i wondered , too , whether , despite jonas 's wishes , i should stay in the city .
just in case things turned to shit .
and of course i wondered whther marty would be callling me in some number of days to once again suggest that he i talk .
" maybe ....i was , you know ...." he kicked the rock and skipped quickly ahead to catch up with it . i lenghthened my stride a little so i could keep up . he went on ," maybe ican ....i was just thinking ....i could fly back ...by myself .i'm old enough , i think .aunt kim will make sure i get on the right palne ." he swung his leg extra hard and whacked the stone a good fifty feet down the lane .
no skipping that time . he ran after it in full sprint .
the kid had speed . who knew ? you could have used a calendar to time his mother in the hundred meter dash . peter , jonas's birth father , had beeen nimble . jonas mu8st have gotten his dad's quickness .
" maybe you can ," i said to his back ." should we wait and see ...... how feel about it a couple more days ? there 's no hurry ."he pulled to a stop when he reached the stone , turned toward me , bit his lower lip . and looked at me eyes ." yeah . let's . " he waited for me to reach him .
i said ." you like your cousin , don't you ?"
he smiled and nodded .
i got chills . hey , adrienne . maybe they are'nt dweeds . who'd have thunk it ?
on the train back into the city later that night i considered many things . i wondered whetther i should have acquieced to marty 's insistence that jonas make an extented visist east that first summer , so soon after his mother's death . i wondered whether jonas's newfound attachment to his mother's extented family was artificial or real . i wondered , too , whether , despite jonas 's wishes , i should stay in the city .
just in case things turned to shit .
and of course i wondered whther marty would be callling me in some number of days to once again suggest that he i talk .
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