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“Shit, shit, shit!” I chanted as I navigated the sidewalk, juggling a Jenga tower of s “A little help here!”

My brother chuckled froood”

“You know being a jerk isn’t going to ht?”

“Maybe not, but if you break your leg or get stuck cleaning forty thousand palettes of eyeshadow off the sidewalk, you probably won’t be able to leave, either”

God, I loved Heath, but when I’d asked hi without lifting the first daer wasn’t exactly what I’d had in mind I should have asked his wife, Clare, instead She wouldn’t have been able to help any trunk down the stairs, but she also wouldn’t have spent the day guilt-tripping me, either

“I’m impressed you knew they were palettes Has Tessa already started hitting you up forthe stack of boxes into the back of my Chevy Traverse

Heath finally sprang into action and gave them a shove before they had the chance to tuot forty ure they’ll cover eyeshadohen I’rave”

It should be noted that when it cahters, my brother was a caveman Obnoxious as it was, I couldn’t bla age When our e fro the oldest and the only boy I was the youngest, and to be honest, I barely remembered my parents at all

I did, however, re my father out after he’d lost himself down a bottle of Jack

I also re Band-Aids onht at dinner because he’d read that they helped eyesight and we couldn’t afford glasses for raduated from the police academy

In all the ways that mattered, Heath was the only parent I’d ever had, and as he slaht, I kneatchingto break his heart

Don’t getHe wanted the world for me He just wanted the world to be around the corner and within his reach