don’t tell Dad that I didn’t ask Devon if I could have his room when he was gone. I asked him a different way. And Devon said it was a weird way and I shouldn’t say it like that and I asked why. He said people would get upset. I don’t want Dad to get upset. So I don’t say what I really said: Can I have your room when you’re dead? I think maybe I understand what Devon meant. Because now I have a recess feeling in my stomach.

