A Kid comes home from soccer practice...
JJ
comes in, pulls open the fridge, chugs from a half-gallon jug of watery orange
drink.
The kitchen is dim. Angled rays of sunlight slip through
nearly-shut blinds, creating a pattern of bars over the room. JJ gulps down orange
drink, pants, gulps again.
His shock of messy hair is limp. His elbows and knees carry
grassy-muddy smears. And his skin itches. Across the faux-hardwood kitchen
floor lie the crumbly clods of dirt JJ just tracked in with his soccer cleats.
JJ is eleven. He breathes through his nose as he takes
one last swig of thin orange drink.
JJ sets the plastic jug on the marble countertop, beside
the steel sink with its built-in garbage chopper. He uses the corner of his red
T-shirt to wipe his mouth. Then JJ circumnavigates the countertop island in the
middle of the room, his cleats clicking like cat claws on the floor as he
walks.
He stops outside the folded-open door to the long kitchen
cabinet and surveys the well-stocked shelves, up and down. The house is too
quiet, so JJ hums softly. A jingle for soda pop. After a while JJ uses a foot
to scoot a stool out from underneath the marble countertop and he clambers up,
standing tippy-toe in his cleats atop the stool, reaching to grab something
from the top shelf, whistling.
Suddenly, as JJ stretches the stool shakes and tips onto
two legs, threatening to skid away on the smooth floor. Gently, on the toes of
his cleats, JJ steadies himself against the second-highest shelf and pushes the
stool back to rest on all four legs.
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