Category: Fiction

1. When he says he’s sorry and he wants to come home, believe him.

At first, it doesn’t bother him because most kids are four feet eleven inches or even shorter. He gets to stand on the middle riser for class pictures in the fifth grade. By the end of middle school, he’s definitely short, but it’s okay because his mom says some people are late bloomers and he’ll probably grow in high school like crazy and since his dad and his older brother and sister are all nearly six feet tall, there’s just no way he’ll be a shrimp. Totally no way.