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Are you okay?

Yeah.

Are you sure?

Love how quiet the world is out here.

It's beautiful.

Yeah, it is.

I got you something.

Is that a block?

Yeah. Kinda, I kinda got a little messed up in my pocket.

You ever smoked one?

No.

Never smoked before.

That's not that hard.

You just, you know, you slide it, and you put it on your lips,

breathe in, and you hold it.

When did you start smoking anyway?

A couple weeks ago with this guy named Daniel from work.

He invited me to his house one night when we were hanging out with What's

-Face. Who, Natalie?

Yeah.

I don't know.

Sitting on the bed and he just pulled it up and was like...

Hey dude, you want some? And I was like, sure.

That's where he scored this from.

Yeah.

You know, I kind of think he likes me.

Likes you?

Like... Like, what? Like, wants to kiss you?

What do you say?

I mean... Do you... Do you like him?

Not sure.

But you, uh...

You talked him into giving you some pop. Yeah, what? Are you jealous?

No.

You just... You really have a way of talking people into things.

I feel like you say that a lot to me.

What? I'm charismatic.

Mm -hmm.

Oh, did I get it?

Hey.

So remember, breathe in, hold, and release, okay?

Yeah.

It's kind of gross.

You gonna tell me what's going on?

It's just Chava.

Today... I, uh... I was in my

mom's room and I found a picture of...

Me and him.

I was like four or something.

We were so happy.

I mean, he was smiling.

I asked my parents why

they never talk about him.

Why they erased him.

My dad just said that there's nothing to be said.

He didn't even look at me.

I mean, after Chavo went to jail, it was like he died.

No.

No, it was worse than that. It was like he never even fucking existed.

And he cleaned out his room, threw everything away, and they didn't even

name anymore. They didn't even say his fucking name.

Shava.

So I have to repeat it to myself.

I have to repeat it to myself, to remind myself that he's real.

My home brother.

I'm sorry, it's... It's dumb.

Are you serious?

Look at me.

That's not dumb.

I'm sorry, Ari.

I'm sorry that the world sometimes makes us feel like we don't matter.

But Ari, you matter.

And your brother, he matters too.

Thanks See

matches

aren't so bad

Who do you think we'll be in 10 years, Ari?

What?

What do you mean?

I don't know, I mean like...

I don't know, like what are we gonna be doing, you know? Like what

kind of people will we be?

I don't fucking know.

Like you're definitely gonna be a professional soccer player.

I suck at soccer. Yeah, I know.

Dick.

No, you're gonna be... You're gonna be a writer.

I can't write.

Yeah, you can, Ari.

Everybody can.

You just gotta put pen to paper.

What you wanna write about and what you wanna say, that's what you should be

asking.

And... You got things to say, Ari.

Well, you're going to be an artist for sure.

I mean, you probably have a gallery full of all the stuff you draw on that

sketch pad of yours.

But that would require you, of course, to show people your drawings.

Wait, have I never shown you that? No.

All these years, I've never seen what you draw on there.

I don't know.

Maybe... Maybe I'm just waiting for the right moment.

When's that?

My dad's going to be a visiting professor at the University of Chicago

year.

I think they're interested in hiring him.

Which means I'll be in Chicago for a year.

That's great.

Yeah?

When are you leaving?

End of summer. Soon.

That's great.

Yeah, you keep saying that. Well, it is.

And you're not sad that I'm leaving, are you? Why would I be sad?

I mean, Chicago sounds fun.

A lot of art.

Chicago.

A lot of fart in Chicago.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

It feels so crazy.

Crazy, crazy, crazy.

Do you think there's something out there that's just back there?

What?

People for thousands of years have been looking up. I just...

I don't know. Maybe I'm just high.

Yeah. I think you are.

I think I am too.

So Natalie.

What about her?

You like into her?

I don't know.

Maybe.

Are you into Daniel?

I don't know.

Maybe.

Maybe if he keeps supplying me with weed.

Kidding.

And you didn't answer my question.

Do you think something's out there?

Like what? Aliens?

I think there's a place out there filled with all the birds that stopped flying

here.

And they just... They just fly around and they sing and...

And they feel with us, you know?

So... Every time that we laugh or smile, they sing louder and...

And every time we...

Hurt, they cry with us.

What is that, too corny?

Oh.

Nothing.

I'm gonna miss you, you know?

You see things Dante.

You see things in a way that no one else does.

It's pretty beautiful.

You're pretty beautiful.

And you're my best friend.

What are you doing?

I don't know

If you think just maybe it's her, then promise me, young man, you're going to

let her know.