Chapter 40: Everyone Goes AwayWe got out of the Jeep in the parking lot at the funeral home. Mr. and Mrs. Ledbetter were uncharacteristically subdued, had been all the way from Tupelo. They stood now, side by side, both looking very elegant and proper.
I don’t want to go inside, Noah signed, looking up at me with misery in his eyes.
We have to say goodbye to Papaw, I signed.
No!
We have to!
I don’t want to go in, Daddy.
Please?
No!
Why?
He went away.
I know he did. And we have to say goodbye.
We can’t say goodbye because he’s dead.
He can still hear us.
Everyone goes away. I hate it!
That’s not true. I’m here.
But you’re going to go away too.
I am not!
You’re going to go to B-o-s-t-o-n with J.
Who told you that?
K.
Really?
She said you’re in love and you’re going to go
