“What are you doing here?” I said to him. Yesterday was the last day for seniors, and the way he’d been dismantling everything in his bedroom and talking nonstop about the summer camp counselor job he’d scored made it clear to our entire family that he couldn’t wait to get out of town. “You should ditch the last couple of periods and hike Point Fellows with me,” Caleb said. He motioned to my sneakers. “You look ready to go.” “There’s a party in my French class next period,” I said. “Madame Lechat said she was bringing cheese and pastries.” “So? I’m leaving soon. You would turn down time spent with your favorite brother for cheese? I’m hurt.” “You’re my only brother,” I said. But I squinted in the general direction of Point Fellows. The air had that soft spring afternoon quality to it, when the rays of the sun were blurred into a watercolor painting by dust and dampness. The sunset, when it came, would be layer upon layer of lavender and pink and orange.
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