Hardy 05 - Mercy Rule, The (65 page)

But wait. What about the other kids on Graham’s team? He remembered the shortstop, Kenny Frazier, good glove no hit.

He was out of newspaper margin — Miss Gray, the other teachers, the Jaguars. But, aha! — here was a brown bag from the grocery store. He pulled it over, writing fast. His and Helen’s first phone number — the house on Taraval. He had to get that down.

But then the rest…

The rest of everything.

The afternoon sun poured in over him and he scribbled until the light was gone, thinking that if he wrote it all down —everybody and everything from the beginning — maybe he would be able to retrieve it all when he needed it. Maybe his life wouldn’t all go away.

Maybe he would live forever.

The End