"Some other people know my second name, but I, I have to know that they're really my friends first before I tell them that. Noah says that helps me be safe," I tell Bull. "I didn't meet anyone bad in Darrow yet but all big places have bad people somewhere so we all need to be careful. And I'm small and sometimes bad guys are big so..."
I think about when I got out of Room and jumped off Old Nick's truck, at first he tried to pull me away and the only thing that stopped him was there being another grown-up there. If there was no grown-up then I would still be in Room with Ma and Old Nick probably would have hurt Ma even more.
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Date: 2016-08-03 03:58 am (UTC)I think about when I got out of Room and jumped off Old Nick's truck, at first he tried to pull me away and the only thing that stopped him was there being another grown-up there. If there was no grown-up then I would still be in Room with Ma and Old Nick probably would have hurt Ma even more.
I look at Bull, I'm not smiling that big now.
"Where are you from, Bull? Did you grow up here?"