Maybe that was supposed to reassure me, but it didn’t. It felt like I’d always be the little boy chasing Robert, never quite able to reach him.
“Look at that beautiful sunset,” Robert said, and I did as he’d told me. It was beautiful indeed, the sun on the horizon, far away on the other side of the canyon. All reds and oranges and a translucent moon taking shape on the darkening sky.
“Wouldn’t it be perfect to kiss a girl right here, right now?” Robert was smiling, lost in whatever he was imagining. But I agreed with him, it was the perfect time for a kiss. Just not with a girl.
“What am I talking about? You don’t know anything about kissing.” He laughed and ruffled my hair, but the light tone and the spark in his eyes didn’t do much to counteract the damage he’d done.
All of a sudden
