Aw for Christssake, I didn’t see that coming.

                                                  he saidhe guaranteed  those  would be his last words

Aw for Christssake, I didn’t see that coming.

Arya practising so theyre rote Automatic

No. Maybe.  Well.

                    Well no matter, they’ll be my last words, and you’ll be able to attest to them.

Me

You.

      I know you’ll be with me at my death.

Your death How do ya know tha

Because . . I guarantee I’ll know and I’ll callsend for you . and you’ll come.

Sound mighty cocksur . .

. . You’ll come.

Another guarantee

No man. You love me and when I’m dying you’ll go through heaven and hell to be with me as I would for you.   But that ain’t gonna happen.

   Guaranteed

Guaranteed.

 

he was visiting his folks a nice afternoon went for a walk with a book walked and read  where he lived he was known as He who walks books if he were First People he would have taken the name

                                                                                    he heard his name yelled

turning around

                his kidbrother the youngest was flying up the street on his bicycleveered onto the sidewalk GOT TO COME HOME! YOU GOT TO COME HOME! MOM SAYS!

he brakedstopped

She say why

She said you gotta come home now.

Okay turnbout letem know Im comin

Right.

       boy was mighty proud he found him he had fallen off a swing landed on his head hadnt been quite right since but was plenty right for the family word was out not to fuck with him they were awfully protective boy felt it he was protective right back

pretty fucking sweet

                       he found him 

 

he came into his bedroom  the door was wideopen  

he wasnt  . . dying in no fuckin' hospital.  I ain’t stretching this thing out.

This thing Your life

I’ve had a good one. I’ll be damned if I’m strapping my family exiting. I wasn’t expensive coming in.

when he arrived he was asleep his wife was a mess  they were schoolhood friends she wanted out of her house and to settle down

she wanted him to settle down with her

he was honest perhaps callus   I don want to settle

   I do.

she did with Ray

Ray and he were best friendswent back to the Cubs Scouts when his family moved into the community the neighbourhood kids everywhere mothers everywhere with eyes in the back of their heads  minimum five kids in each house loads and loads of kids

she and Ray stayed put moved but not ten miles from of the old neighbourhood

when he visited his folks he and Ray would tie-up

                                                      Sandy hadnt forgiven him  he saw her sparingly

this would be the most hed seen her

I think he could beat this. she said  Doctors say . .

. . The odds Wha odds they give him  Rays nobodys fool

   Shitty odds.

Nobodys fool Sandy Rays decision

                                      Only thing we truly own in this life is our lives

I thought you’d come and convince him to try.

                                                 He listens to you.

AwSandy I apologise

                      Its not my place  chuckling under his breath Guarantees have been made  Given

crestfallen Ray.

Ray

Aw for Christssake, I didn’t see that coming.

                                               Ray was on his back uncovered skinanbones

then he folded out of himself onto his face onto his back was shouldertoshoulder with him Wha the fuck that iteration blueing graying folded out of himself onto his face onto his back was shouldertoshoulder with him

                                                                                                        three Rays

the third was greennot rotting green no   looked sagelike fucking eternal    his soul

they laid side by side by side on the Kingsize bed

he and Sandy were standing at the beds edgeSandy staggeredcaught herguided her onto a dressing chair turned back to Ray and as he did he said Aw for Christssake, I didn’t see that coming. Ray guaranteed those would be his last words

Anya fucked that up for me.

                             he smiled the biggest mostpleased mostbeautiful smile hed ever seen on Rays face not even when he lost his longmalingering cherry did he smile that beauteous

closing his eyes he took a bright clear untroubled breath

   then Ray sighed  a long sweet birdcall

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