Chapter 13
Chapter 13
For the next couple of days before the screen test came back, we didn’t do much. I stayed in Mr. Clayburn’s guest room. He had the biggest, most beautiful house I had ever seen. There was an arch over the front entry leading to a foyer that I now realize was actually not as big and grand as it appeared to me back then. A boy who has never seen much more than a four-room shack would be impressed by anything that seemed much beyond that. There was a large formal living room to the left and a hall that led past the stairs straight by a kitchen into the den in back. From the den adjacent to the kitchen in the back of the house, large windows revealed a fenced and somewhat lush backyard with a swimming pool and a gazebo nearby. There was a dining room to the left just pa
