Being so young, I didn’t immediately grasp everything behind the story, although I knew what death was. It meant game over. No more play. No more fun. But people died everyday and people would continue to die everyday. It was sad, but it was a fact of life. It didn’t make me feel good to hear when a child died and I actually felt a little bit of disgust and a bit of sorrow upon hearing about this particular girl’s untimely demise.
Jason, Cory and I sat there in silence, mouths open, starring at Steve. Our tennis ball had ceased its passage from kid to kid and lay motionless on the floor in the middle of the playhouse.