Chapter 54 First Love

• T E X A S
• We were both eight years old when I first met Idris, who appeared thin and weak to me. At that point when I first saw him, he even appeared underweight. While I was playing with my new remote-control toy car, which was stuck in damp muck since the wheels were no longer spinning, he was hidden in the surrounding park’s bushes where I was not able to spot him yet. I sighed at how filthy my remote-control toy car had become, and as I proceeded to get it from the muddy water, there I noticed him sobbing and embracing his knees behind that bush.
• I picked up my toy car, “Hey, why are you crying?”