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It seemed to him that he had been thought too big for that since the day he was born.
There was something weird about a grown man wanting to be friends with his own child.
Bruh what??
“Why are you so mean to me?” “Will you shut up, May Belle? You’ll have everyone in the whole house woke up with that big mouth of yours.”
Ew
May Belle was as scrawny as Brenda was fat. She stood a moment in the middle of the floor in her underwear, her skin white and goose-bumpy. Her eyes were still drooped from sleep, and her pale brown hair stuck up all over her head like a squirrel’s nest on a winter branch. That’s got to be the world’s ugliest kid, he thought, looking her over with genuine affection. She threw her jeans into his face. “I’m gonna tell Momma.” He threw the jeans back at her. “Tell Momma what?” “How you just stand there staring at me when I ain’t got my clothes on.” Lord. She thought he was enjoying it. “Yeah,
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Pardon??
“Sounds kinda like Miss Edmunds.” It was Miss Edmunds. “Jess?” her voice flowed through the receiver. “Miserable weather, isn’t it?” “Yes’m.” He was scared to say more for fear she’d hear the shake. “I was thinking of driving down to Washington—maybe go to the Smithsonian or the National Gallery. How would you like to keep me company?” He broke out in a cold sweat. “Jess?” He licked his lips and shoved his hair off his face. “You still there, Jess?” “Yes’m.” He tried to get a deep breath so he could keep talking. “Would you like to go with me?” Lord. “Yes’m.”
Wtf
Miss Edmunds always beside him. She would bend her head down close to his face to give some explanation or ask him a question, her black hair falling across her shoulders. Men would stare at her instead of the pictures, and Jess felt they must be jealous of him for being with her.
Wtf
But before he had time to figure anything out, she said, “Now I’m not going to have any argument about who’s paying. I’m a liberated woman, Jess Aarons. When I invite a man out, I pay.”
Wtf
He felt good again. All the way home in the sunshine Miss Edmunds told funny stories about going to college one year in Japan, where all the boys had been shorter than she, and she hadn’t known how to use the toilets.
???
Brenda’s pouting voice broke in, “Your girl friend’s dead, and Momma thought you was dead, too.”
Insane way to tell bad news
She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there—like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.
Shes a manic pixie dream girl for elementary school kids
