Teenaged Fumbling
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“Dude, what the hell happened to you?”
“I fell off my snowboard,” Ian says sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head with his left hand awkwardly.
“Why didn’t you tell me on the phone?” Anthony asks, inspecting Ian’s arm. “It’s broken?”
“Not my arm,” Ian says, “I just fractured my wrist.” He wriggles a few fingers that poke out from the cast as if to prove he still has movement, “and I didn’t tell you because I was embarrassed.”
“So, you waited until you came back where I can make fun of you in person.”
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- Part 1 of Teenaged Fumbling
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“Hi Anthony, how is your wrist?”
“Better,” Anthony says, lifting his slinged wrist.
She smiles and nods and then slips back into the kitchen to continue making dinner. Anthony follows Ian to his bedroom where he drops his bag on the floor next to the foot of Ian’s bed.
Then the two of them are alone in Ian’s room and they have been one hundred times before and so many times since that night six months ago, but maybe it’s the sling, the echoes of when Ian had his cast that makes the memory rise to the forefront of Anthony’s mind, or maybe it’s how he wanted to tell his dad – not that he’s going to tell Ian that – but either way, he’s thinking about that night, about what Ian felt like, looked like, sounded like.
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- Part 2 of Teenaged Fumbling