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lostsullivans · 4 years
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lostsullivans · 4 years
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TURN BACK THE CLOCK DRABBLES - FRANKIE EDITION
AGE 10
          It had taken a little placating, a little convincing, but Ada finally allowed her son to take his younger brother up to the roof. She’d always warned Frankie about it, how he could get locked up there and likely no one would hear a thing, but she knew damn well he went up there all the time anyway. Unfortunately for her, his arguments were too compelling to not let him bring Mikey this time.
“Ma, I wanna show Mikey the world. He deserves to see what he’s gonna rule someday.” He grinned like his father, that all-too-sure-of-himself sort of grin that landed Ada securely into John’s life, and she had to laugh.
“Oh? He’s gonna rule it someday, huh? And what are you gonna do?”
“I’m gonna tell him how to, of course. Now can we please? I promise I’ll make sure to keep the door open.”
AGE 16
          “You gotta do it, Pearly, or else we ain’t eatin’ for a week.” That wasn’t true, but then again, most things Frankie told her weren’t, or were, at the very least, highly exaggerated.
“C’mon, no. There’s gotta be somethin’ else we can do.” The look of disgust on her face should have made him pause, but it didn’t. She had ways of making people do things he didn’t. At least this kind of people. If the guy liked boys, well…
“C’mon nothin’. You don’t even have to do much, just… Flirt with him a little. I don’t know, but it’s this or we stick around the Pops’s and wait on him to pretend to give a damn. Who knows when he’ll be back from his–” Frankie lifted his fingers and did air quotes. “Fishin’ trip.”
Bullet crossed her arms, almost like she was holding herself and looked away. “Just flirtin’ then? Nothin’ else?”
“Nothin’ else. Promise. And if he thinks so, I’ll knock his goddamn teeth out. How ‘bout that deal?” He waited for her to nod before slinging an arm around her shoulders and leading her off. “That’s the spirit. We’re family, Pearl, we’re all we got; we have to help each other outta this mess.”
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