Chapter 16
July 17
It’s a scorcher, eighty-eight degrees by mid-morning, with humidity to match. I work up a sweat on the short walk to the end of the driveway to pick up the paper for my mom.
“Oh, those poor trees,” I tease her, not for the first time, for being one of the last people on the planet who gets their day-old news printed on paper.
She ignores me by ducking behind the front page while she sips her third cup of coffee. I reach into the stack and pull out the sports page. The Phillies are wallowing in third place, dropping further each day. With football season coming up, I scan an article on the pre-season hopes for the Eagles.
Charlotte is in Florida, at the beach with her parents and little brother. She promises to send me pictures in her new bikini she assures me I will
