Fire Solves All Problems Perfectly pt 37

You look at Jason to see that he understands: you tell Tim to go get your bike and he does so happily while you and Jason consider one another. His face is blank and streaked with sweat, but his real one is floating just behind that and you can see that he hates you. And that’s fine: there are a total of 17 fire kids, and only 12 of them matter and of that only 8 are ones of any consequence – and you have defeated every one of them since the first time Rueben Lopez yanked off your coat and threw it in the snow during recess and your father said you better show them whose son you are. The last one was Randy Marshang a year ago, whose head you held underwater for so long that you were scared for a minute that he died.