Max came back out from inside, a glass in his hand. He handed it to his friend and crouched down next to him. It was apparent AJ didn’t want to move, or was not able to. Max stood up and looked around, hands on his hips. He placed a hand on AJ’s shoulder and Addie could see his mouth moving. AJ looked up at him, and then Max proceeded back into the house. She closed the curtain and turned back to Gram. “What do I do?” Addie felt so insecure, insignificant now in the grand scheme of how she was finding out life worked. “Honey, there is a plan laid out for each one of us. The joy is that in that plan, we still have free will. We can deviate our own plans; the laws of the universe simply state that someone else can not deviate them for us. I can’t tell you what to do. What I can tell you though, from looking at that boy,” she said, pausing and peeking out the same curtain, “is that he could probably use a friend.” Addie looked at Gram and then back to the window.
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