“Mitch, it’s gotta be past one in the morning.”
“So?”
“We're gonna get in trouble if we get found out.”
“Jesus, Jason. We’re already in trouble. You’re the one made us take you.”
“But mama wakes up earlier than the sun rises! She’s gonna go looking for me, and if she don’t see me—”
“Shhh!”
Mitch stopped abruptly and crouched down in the bush, his head c****d like he was listening for something. I crouched down next to him.
“What is it?” I asked. “You heard daddy? I knew it! I knew he was gonna find us.”
“Shut up!”
“Both of you shut up,” Lee spat.
He was crouched down about five feet in front of us, daddy’s rifle in his left hand, spying at the river around a thick growth of bushes, past the hanging branches of a river tree. The water shone black and silver in the full moon, and t
