Dawn Reader

Dawn Reader
from Open Door Coffee Co.; Hudson, OH; Oct. 26, 2016

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Spoon River Middle School: 43


David Freund


Free Writing

Since first grade
Jonathan and I have been
best friends.

(He was always “Jonathan,”
never Jon
or Johnny
or Whatever.)

Second grade.
Third.
Fourth.
Fifth.
Sixth.
Seventh.
Best friends,
every year,
even third
when we had
different teachers.
We’d still walk
to school
together,
eat lunch,
together.
Play all weekend
and holidays
and summer.
Together.

One day,
earlier this year,
Jonathan asked me—
whispering
if I thought
Emily Booker
was cute.

I looked at him,
saw in his serious eyes
that nothing
again
would ever be
the same.


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