He Thought I'd Forget novel · Chapter 25 of 32
Chapter 25: One Candle
I gave Alexis her phone back.
"Let him," I said.
She stared at me.
"Let him put me on stage," I said. "I'd like a microphone."
Two days later, my son turned one.
Jeanine said a first birthday at an apartment over a woodshop was "a fire code violation with balloons," so we had it in the yellow kitchen.
That morning the kids and I made the sign.
I drew the letters on a long strip of brown paper in pencil.
DAVEY IS ONE.
They filled them in with poster paint, kneeling on newspaper on the back porch.
My nephew did the D and the A and got blue in his eyebrow.
My niece did the rest and kept inside the lines.
"Why does the O get a shadow?" my nephew asked.
"So you can read it from across the street."
"It's going in the kitchen."
"So you can read it from across the kitchen."
He considered that and gave the O a second shadow.
On Wednesday I'd spent an hour at the board's long table telling them about the score sheets.
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