A Baby Elephant Takes Its First Steps
Julie
“What?” he says.
I repeat, “Did you tell her to throw me off Brooklyn Bridge?”
He looks at me like I’m speaking in tongues, his mouth opening and closing, grasping for words. “Julie, I... I’d never do that. What are you even talking about? Your mother said you attacked her.”
My jaw drops. “Attacked her?”
“Wasn’t that what happened?”
“She tried to throw me off the bridge, Ryan! What language have I been speaking?”