You've Been Replaced, First Love novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Names on the Glass
I took the coffee can from the dishwasher and held it against my stomach.
It was heavier than eleven hundred dollars had any right to be.
"Tell me what the vote was," I said.
"Six to five," said the sous chef. "Six want his name on the glass with the rest of ours."
"And five?"
"Five want him to earn it." He turned his hat in his hands.
"He crossed himself out. We don't know if that makes it better or worse."
I looked at all eleven faces on the step, in their coats, in the cold.
"I'll letter eleven names," I said. "Dishwasher first, biggest. Then the rest in the order you've written."
"And Marlow?"
"At the bottom, I'll leave a space the width of one name."
"A gap," the dishwasher said.
"A gap. I won't fill it." I tapped the can.
"If he's still at that pit in the spring, you can ask me back."
"And he signs for it himself."
Nobody spoke for a moment.
Then the sous chef nodded, slowly, and the whole step let out its breath at once.
"He can't cross it back out," said the dishwasher, grinning.
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