I nodded, again. I don't know what showed in my eyes, but whatever it was, it stopped Nathaniel where he stood, froze him like a rabbit in the grass that knows the fox is near. He took hold of my arm, which he never does, and smiled over my head. Dallas said, Hey, we weren't finished.
He rushed toward me, so fast he was a blur of white and red, and his eyes like green streaks. Then do what you're told. Still the man who had come closest to making me try for the picket fence, and the two-point-five kids. We all agreed that we don't wear black to work.
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