The Heavenly Kid Page #2

So...

Who's it going to be?

Which one of these lucky kids

is my assignment?

The spazola.

I don't ever, ever, want to see your face

around here again! You understand that?

Not unless you're a paying customer.

You know Max

really doesn't mean that, Lenny.

Now, go on, beat it, schmuck.

- Maybe he does.

- See you, Melissa.

- Wiener!

- See you, Barnes!

"Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still

"Should, without eyes, see pathways to his

"Where shall we dine?

"Here's much to do with hate

But more with love"

You gotta watch that first step, kid.

It's a nasty one.

- Sorry about that.

- It's okay.

- I guess I owe you my life.

- Forget it.

All in the line of duty.

- But, if you hadn't been here, I would...

- Yep.

You'd be a pile of hamburger.

How did you do that?

I'll be seeing you.

Where are you going?

- Got a train to catch.

- You from out of town?

- Yeah, you could say that.

- Look, I want to thank you.

Sure thing.

Wait, I don't even know your name.

- Going somewhere?

- Yeah, Uptown.

No, you're not.

- Well, I did my job, right?

- Wrong.

What? What do you mean "wrong"?

Saved his life, didn't I?

What else am I supposed to do?

Become his friend.

You got to be kidding me.

He needs somebody to talk to.

Well, buy him a German shepherd.

He thinks that he's worthless.

Well, he might be on to something.

It's your job to show him he's not.

- How am I supposed to do that?

- That is up to you.

I've been stuck on a subway

all these years for this?

Why couldn't you send me down here

to rescue some orphans or something?

Rafferty, it ain't going to work.

I mean, I got nothing in common

with this kid.

He's a complete square.

He even puked on me.

He is your assignment.

- What if I don't take it?

- You want to go Uptown, don't you?

You're on your own, kid.

"But soft!

"What light through yonder window breaks?

"It is the east

"And Juliet is the sun!

"Arise, fair sun

"And kill the envious moon

"Who is already sick and pale with grief

"That thou, her maid

art far more fair than she"

"That thou art far more fair than she."

What does Shakespeare mean...

by these words that all but sing

with lyric beauty?

Mr. Gallo?

Beats the hell out of me.

Lenny.

It means that...

that as beautiful as the moon is...

it pales beside the beauty of his ladylove.

Exactly.

Smart kid.

But still a spaz.

- Gag me.

- Who's getting married?

Wedding cake at lunch?

Maybe it was Debbie and Professor Walker.

Hey, kid, knock it off.

Rafferty?

- Where are you?

- 97 F.M.

I'm keeping my eye on you. Understand?

Hey, will you cut me some slack?

No fooling around, understand?

Stick to your assignment.

That's what I've been doing, Rafferty.

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