The World Made Straight Page #6

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possible dismal reckoning. "

What you looking at?

Just some of these journals.

Trying to see if I could find

out more about David Shelton.

It's really got you hooked.

I know.

I just keep thinking about him

ever since we went up to the Laurel.

I mean, that kid's five

years younger than I am

and he's already a soldier.

Already got himself a cause.

Go home.

You're old enough to know

where you come from now.

You need to know your smarts

didn't just spring up

like some daisy in

a bunch of hogweed.

There were smart folk

in our family before.

Your great-great-grandfather

was a doctor.

Joshua Candler.

He was assigned to the 64th.

It was them that done

the killing in the Laurel.

He knew every man and

boy that got killed.

He was their

doctor before the war.

And he just let it happen.

Hi.

Hi, baby.

Let's walk.

Still nothing?

You got to be patient.

It don't happen fast.

Should've done it earlier.

All stuck.

...Don't you be coming up here.

You're all wet.

Stop.

- Don't be mad.

- I'm not mad.

It's not like I don't want to.

I do.

It's just all I see at work

is girls who made mistakes.

And I'm not going

to be like them.

I'm gonna get out of here

and go to college, see things.

Doesn't mean I don't like you.

Come on, kiss me.

Big time with

your lady yesterday?

Did she get you off all right?

Where is Leonard?

Mountainboro.

I can get you some booze.

Evidently this

trailer pull ain't enough.

What?

Two of you are quite a pair.

You quit school,

he gets fired from one.

Dumb kid, same as you.

How some punk cheating

on his test reported him.

Kid got some weed, put it in

his car and called the cops.

Arrested him right

there in his classroom.

Wasn't long before

his wife left him.

She got custody, too.

Leonard's got a kid?

You didn't know that?

Yeah,

Leonard's a daddy, all right.

But he don't see them no more.

They off in Australia,

I think.

You know you're kind of pretty

under that sneer?

Don't.

Why not?

What do you mean, "Why not"?

'Cause it wouldn't be right.

- That's why.

- Wouldn't be right?

That's okay.

I don't mind.

I don't mind.

Squeeze it.

Feel good, don't it?

What's the matter?

Little sweetheart of yours

ain't got you some?

You think she knows

all the tricks?

I've been f***ing since before

she could wipe her own ass.

Ha!

All right, come on.

You had it before.

Give me...

Here he is.

The outlaw.

How's it going with Leonard?

You boys in business yet?

I don't know.

Hey, what do you got

stashed in the truck?

Get your fat ass off my truck

before you f***ing break it.

You don't even have a dime bag

for your buddy.

Leonard been practicing?

Been practicing

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