“Fine,” he answered, still not looking up from his game. “Auggie, I’m talking to you!”
I pulled the PlayStation out of his hands. “Hey!” he said angrily. “How was school?”
“I said fine!” he yelled back, grabbing the PlayStation back from me. “Were people nice to you?”
“Yes!” “No one was mean?”
He put the PlayStation down and looked up at me as if I had just asked the dumbest question in the world.
“Why would people be mean?” he said. It was the first time in his life that I heard him be sarcastic like that.
I didn’t think he had it in him.
The Padawan Bites the Dust
I’m not sure at what point that night Auggie had cut off his Padawan braid, or why that made me really mad.
I had always found his obsession with everything Star Wars kind of geeky,
and that braid in the back of his hair, with its little beads, was just awful.
But he had always been so proud of it, of how long it took him to grow it,
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