#179 The Boy on the Couch- Jabari Asim
It’s tough being a 9 year old boy. Have to battle with older
brothers, neighborhood bullies, parents always telling you what to do, and now
you have your first crush? Life is complicated.
“Your grandma likes to say that there are no boys under this
roof, but I’ll tell you this: there’s only one man and he ain’t you.”
Unfortunately for Crispus, the girl he had decided to have a
crush on was playing with his fears, telling him that there was a ghost in his
house. More specifically, there was a ghost of a boy sitting on his living room
couch. That sent his whole world spinning.
“Then I went to my room, sat on my bed, and considered the
situation. I didn’t like to visit the third floor because it was scary up
there. I didn’t like to go to the basement by myself because it was scary down
there. I had been avoiding the couch for several days because of the scary
dents in the cushion. I was running out of places to cower.”
His mind, like his almost girlfriend, like his older
brothers, start to play tricks on him. Life is rough for a 9 year-old boy.
Notable Passage: “I caught a whiff of her as she entered the
kitchen, and she smelled delicious, just like the pie. She was wasting her time
with Avon perfume. If she could bottle that stuff, she’d be a millionaire.”
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