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“I know you were outside the door”

“Why shouldn’t I be outside my door?”

“You know that’s not what I mean”

Wham

“Sam, I don’t knohat you mean I’m not sure you knohat youif I didn’t say that I’reat but I have opened up in a way that I never thought I could I’rateful to you for it But if you think I’ ht off and forget you ever knew me”

Wham

I can’t hit the bag hard enough Can’t outstrike the pain She puts her hand on one,” she says “I sent her away Will you take that ith me?”

I give the bag one last knee to ould be an opponent’smy wrist wraps as fast as I can “Okay But after that I want you to go I thought there wasbefore” I walk away and turn back around “Oh, and I get to choose where we’re walking to”

I stalk off, knowing I sound petulant, not really caring Such as it is, I have et dressed, put on a sweatshirt and pants As I one Maybe I’er

I realize that one of —I took myself out to the , invisible, a ghost, and I did it on purpose And I knohat it’s like to be told I’a and I wore it hile it lasted

What I’, so there for so convenience

“Let’s go,” I say, co before you go” I walk fast, not really caring if she can keep up

She doesn’t say anything Maybe she’s feeling so like I am

So

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE : SAM WASHINGTON