Drayden - Chapter 13
I leave dinner with Natalie and frag immediately to Oscar’s. I land hard in the snow, making no effort to slow my fall from feet up. Sodapop growls suddenly from inside the shed and explodes the door open until he sees that it’s just me. I don’t say hi to him. I rush past him into the shed and look hard at the floor where he had left digging marks. He wags his tail. I think he knows I’ve finally figured it out. I rub him on the head.
“Good boy,” I say.
I throw Sodapop’s bed onto the snow, punch as hard as I can into one of the wood planks on the floor, and pull the wood up, snapping it as easily as a toothpick. I pull at board after board until there’s only frozen dirt below. Sodapop joins me and digs into the frozen soil. I help him, using my arms like a
