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needed to change the subject.
“So, I was looking at college’s yesterday.” I stopped and waited for a reaction off her. She answered with excitement for me but not before I saw the sad look in her eyes. “I’ll come back whenever I can, or you could even go to college yourself, Sam.”
Looking out over the park, she sighed. “You know I can’t do that, Con.” I felt sad for her, she was stuck here but I couldn’t blame her for not wanting to leave. She had responsibilities, her mom wouldn’t magically sober up and she wouldn’t leave Tommy until he was ready to go to college himself. Feeling the need to change the subject again, I turned it to more trivial things, I told her all the latest goings on from school and she told me all of the goings on from around town that she heard in the salon.
Before we knew it, it was five o’clock and we both had to head back. We stopped off and picked Tommy up from his buddies’ house and he came out bouncing and animated.
“Connor!” he shouted and stuck his hand out for a high five.
“Hey, bud! How you doing?” I slapped his hand and he started telling me all about his day, the way only a nine-year-old could. He was a good kid, even after all he’d been through, I guess he had Sammy to thank for that.
“…and then we had ice cream with rainbow sprinkles on. Sammy, can we get rainbow sprinkles?” Looking over at Sammy, she had the biggest grin on her face.
“If you get all your chores done, sure.” With a whoop, he ran on ahead and Sammy watched after him.
“You’re awesome with him, you know that? He’s lucky to have you.” She continued looking ahead, watching what he was doing.
“I’m lucky to have him. At times, I think it would just be easier if he wasn’t here, I could get on with my life and finish school and go off to college. But I wouldn’t change this for anything. He keeps me sane, along with a few others.” She bumped my shoulder and smiled at me so I wrapped my arm around her.
“I’ll always be here, Sam.”
Looking out over the water, the feeling inside of me was still so raw. That heart wrenching night had changed the way I looked at life, it taught me that life was precious but that it could also be taken away within a heartbeat. I couldn’t help but feel the pang of guilt that was hidden away inside me.
My head dropped into my hands as a flashback of that night replayed. Going over every detail I could remember, I needed to find something I could’ve done differently. In all honesty, I had gone over it a million times already but one more time wouldn’t hurt.
Running scenarios in my head was a daily occurrence and it killed me that I couldn’t get closure to make that guilt go away. Looking down into my hands at the key chain I brought here every year, I thought back to the last of mine and Tommy’s ‘man days’.
“Don’t let him climb too high, Con, I mean it.” I laughed at Sammy’s protectiveness.
“Stop being such a spoil sport, I’ll look after him, you know I always do.” She narrowed her eyes at me. “Okay, okay. You win, no climbing too high. Yes, sir.” I finished with a salute before giving her a wink and driving off.
Tommy bounced in the seat beside me with excitement. For the past two years we’d made a pact to go on ‘man days’. They consisted of purely ‘man things’ as he liked to call them, like hiking, climbing trees and making fires, although that last one was between us. He didn’t have a male role model in his life so I guess you could say I kind of took it upon myself to be that for him. In all honesty, I really enjoyed these days, I’d always wanted a sibling and Tommy was my substitute for that.
“You ready for this hike, bud? It’s going to be a little longer than the last time we were here.” Turning and giving me his biggest grin ever, he started on one of his speeches that wasn’t really a conversation, it was all on-sided, a barrel of questions; I couldn’t get a
“So, I was looking at college’s yesterday.” I stopped and waited for a reaction off her. She answered with excitement for me but not before I saw the sad look in her eyes. “I’ll come back whenever I can, or you could even go to college yourself, Sam.”
Looking out over the park, she sighed. “You know I can’t do that, Con.” I felt sad for her, she was stuck here but I couldn’t blame her for not wanting to leave. She had responsibilities, her mom wouldn’t magically sober up and she wouldn’t leave Tommy until he was ready to go to college himself. Feeling the need to change the subject again, I turned it to more trivial things, I told her all the latest goings on from school and she told me all of the goings on from around town that she heard in the salon.
Before we knew it, it was five o’clock and we both had to head back. We stopped off and picked Tommy up from his buddies’ house and he came out bouncing and animated.
“Connor!” he shouted and stuck his hand out for a high five.
“Hey, bud! How you doing?” I slapped his hand and he started telling me all about his day, the way only a nine-year-old could. He was a good kid, even after all he’d been through, I guess he had Sammy to thank for that.
“…and then we had ice cream with rainbow sprinkles on. Sammy, can we get rainbow sprinkles?” Looking over at Sammy, she had the biggest grin on her face.
“If you get all your chores done, sure.” With a whoop, he ran on ahead and Sammy watched after him.
“You’re awesome with him, you know that? He’s lucky to have you.” She continued looking ahead, watching what he was doing.
“I’m lucky to have him. At times, I think it would just be easier if he wasn’t here, I could get on with my life and finish school and go off to college. But I wouldn’t change this for anything. He keeps me sane, along with a few others.” She bumped my shoulder and smiled at me so I wrapped my arm around her.
“I’ll always be here, Sam.”
Looking out over the water, the feeling inside of me was still so raw. That heart wrenching night had changed the way I looked at life, it taught me that life was precious but that it could also be taken away within a heartbeat. I couldn’t help but feel the pang of guilt that was hidden away inside me.
My head dropped into my hands as a flashback of that night replayed. Going over every detail I could remember, I needed to find something I could’ve done differently. In all honesty, I had gone over it a million times already but one more time wouldn’t hurt.
Running scenarios in my head was a daily occurrence and it killed me that I couldn’t get closure to make that guilt go away. Looking down into my hands at the key chain I brought here every year, I thought back to the last of mine and Tommy’s ‘man days’.
“Don’t let him climb too high, Con, I mean it.” I laughed at Sammy’s protectiveness.
“Stop being such a spoil sport, I’ll look after him, you know I always do.” She narrowed her eyes at me. “Okay, okay. You win, no climbing too high. Yes, sir.” I finished with a salute before giving her a wink and driving off.
Tommy bounced in the seat beside me with excitement. For the past two years we’d made a pact to go on ‘man days’. They consisted of purely ‘man things’ as he liked to call them, like hiking, climbing trees and making fires, although that last one was between us. He didn’t have a male role model in his life so I guess you could say I kind of took it upon myself to be that for him. In all honesty, I really enjoyed these days, I’d always wanted a sibling and Tommy was my substitute for that.
“You ready for this hike, bud? It’s going to be a little longer than the last time we were here.” Turning and giving me his biggest grin ever, he started on one of his speeches that wasn’t really a conversation, it was all on-sided, a barrel of questions; I couldn’t get a
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