10. In the gym in Cali when I got the text that he was gone.
A teammates voice on the microphone, smells like sweat and sugary foods, metal chairs shifting, muffled coughs and yawns, teenagers, sun coming in from the double doors to the side of the gym, chaperons talking in the kitchen, a small wooden table with our blue plastic tub sitting on it. Sitting cross legged in my own metal chair, my phone is cold, I used it for my clock, I was bored by the same old stories, there was a text message from a high school friend, a missed call and voicemail from another, it was weird, it had been a long time since I had heard from them, "Have you heard?" or "Did you hear?" Walking across the shiny wooden floor, through the open double doors to the outer hall, outside to the courtyard.
Cooper in West Seattle
Big sliding door, wood framed twin bed on risers, dresser against the wall, closet in the niche behind my bed, chair next to door, poster "We Love you Alaina" hanging from my wall, books, in a laundry basket overturned next to my bed, white tubs sliding under my bed full of clothes, random music in the background, the elevator working and moving, smells like grease and Chinese food, sometimes chicken, my sisters voice, "Case!", my niece looking through the crack between my door and the wall, bricks, stairs, slanted skylights, green wet hill, cloudy blue sky, water droplets in the windows, tv on a hinge, plants creeping over the side of the leather couch, waking up to sid the science kid , my niece in a bumbo seat on the stainless steal table, food on her tray, avocadoes, tortillas, cottage cheese, no meat.
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