Chapter 16On the way back to the Jones camp I acted like a white man and peppered the kid with questions. Turns out he was Grandma’s youngest son’s boy, so he was a Jones too. He was sixteen, going on seventeen, and attended Blue Valley High School. Played a little baseball, but mostly liked to run. The mile was his best event. I wondered if he knew Long Face. He broke that pretty face into the first smile of the day when I joked around and asked if he was married.
“No. Not yet,” he answered. “Maybe someday.”
“Got her picked out?”
He snickered as he got out of the pickup. “Not yet.”
Daniel didn’t come home that night, but he did call. Said the doctor confirmed Lisa was pregnant. He was going to stay the night with her, but planned on being home tomorrow afternoon. I told him the deal I
