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Learning to Fall: lace bra souvenir.
I just got back in the door and can't hardly breathe. I never did stuff like this before and running back from Gill's house has me just about to fall out cold.
After we got home from school and had some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches Terry and I headed over to Dad's shop and that's when Dad and Gill told us to get done what we could and that they were going to the warehouse where Dad worked to pick up some helium cylinders and that they wouldn't be back until late.
That's when Terry convinced me to go with him to spy on Gill's house just as soon as it got dark. We hid behind the bushes and looked into the living room window and watched as Ms. Harriet smoked a cigarette and watched TV. That wasn't good enough for Terry, though, and he snuck around the other side of the house and jumped the little wall outside Gill and Ms. Harriet's bedroom.
"Get out of there, you idiot!" I whispered at him but he just kept going and then it seemed like maybe I should follow him in case he needed a boost getting out.
Once we were in the little patio outside their room we opened the sliding door and Terry got down on his hands and knees and snuck into their bedroom. I followed even though it all felt wrong, wrong, wrong.
Ms. Harriet came into the bedroom just then and we froze and she walked right on through to their bathroom and that was it. I grabbed Terry's arm and we ran out of there as fast as we could and came running home and I can't believe Terry made me do that.
"I told you you'd owe me big time after this morning." When he said it he pulled a red lacy bra out from under his shirt where he hid it after finding it on the floor in Gill's bedroom. He waved it under my nose and asked if I wanted to smell it.
"Terry Taylor, you are an asshole."
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