Summers End

“Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I deserve it– to move on. I don’t think I ever will.” Bobby pauses, looks down, and wipes dust off the face in the photo, revealing Marcy’s adolescent, gap-toothed smile. “But someone told me recently that it isn’t about what you deserve.” He looks up again and places his hand on Eddie’s shoulder. He turns toward the sliding glass of the back door, toward his family laughing in the bright July sun, and he squeezes tight.“It’s what you earn.”orChristopher spends a summer away. Eddie changes in spite of himself.