They had been debating whether to get a bunch of individual bottle rockets and roman candles and rocket bombs; Joshua thought they'd save money if they picked and chose what they wanted, and Christophe wanted one of the kits because it contained a special super-bomb. In the picture pasted to the front, the bomb looked as if it burst into a rose: a glittering, deep blue rose. Christophe had never seen anything like that, and part of him wanted to buy it because he just wanted to see if it was possible. He wanted to know if someone could make something explode into such a beautiful shape, or if the small, inky drawing on the advertisement was a sham. At the end of their small argument over fireworks, he told Joshua this, and Joshua bent over the case silently and squinted at the base of the bomb. He was trying to read the small print."I wasn't going to hit him."Joshua nodded. "I know.""I thought I could, but once I saw him....""Yeah.""I know he ain't nothing-but it was like looking at you.
