CHAPTER 19
I may not have my college degree just yet, but I can recognize a good thing when it comes my way. You don’t even want to know how far me and Ruby go back.
We met because she’s my sister’s best friend, but me and Ruby have always had something between us, even when she was a little scrawny six-year-old with her big nose and big ears and long limbs looking all awkward.
That girl could boss me around like nothing else. Make me put on a Burger King crown and pretend to be king, and that left Jessi to be the princess. Because both Jessi and me said it wouldn’t work out for a brother and sister to be married, even in make-believe.
Same thing when those girls wanted me to play house. They had to bribe me. Ruby would bring over candy. Her mom kept her place loaded, and I’d have to m
