He Defended Her, He Said I Deserved It novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: The Gallery
I didn't answer right away.
He waited. He's good at it.
"On one condition," I said.
"Name it."
"Say hello."
He looked at me.
"You told me on the back step that you saw me on the courthouse steps for years," I said. "Every morning. And you never once said hello."
"I never did."
"So say it."
He set his mug down on the dock.
He turned all the way toward me, with his knees against mine, and he looked at me the way he'd looked at the screen the first night.
"Hello, Lainie," he said.
"Hello, Ike," I said. "Yes."
I moved down one floor on the first of May.
Nettie carried the quilt herself and wouldn't let anyone help.
She'd amended the lease in purple marker. Rent: dishes. Swearing: still a quarter.
My chalk went on the kitchen windowsill. My sketchbooks went on the radiator, on top of his westerns.
Kerri was sentenced on the twentieth of May.
The station manager called the week before.
"Your seat's there," he said. "Second row, left. If you want it."
"The kid?"
"The kid's sitting next to you. He's going to learn hands if it kills him."
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