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"Well then, I will pray that Jesus sends us a true diva to lead The KDFCs, so that they will feel confident enough to participate in your variety show," Father Chee says, and then he suddenly stops running, so I stop pedaling

I’ Donna’s bike

We look at each other

"Are you okay?" FC asksforward"

"You are out of your roo Boy needs me"

"Many people need you, Aer than you think"

"Hug?" I ask, because I can’t take too ht now

"Of course," he says, and then hugs me all fatherly

"Will you pray forat me "Almost every hour"

And then I ride my bike back to Donna’s house and cook chicken in a pan, slice that hooey up, and make a chicken salad with honey-ets home, we eat

"Hoas your first day back?" Donna asksto Stuht, in the Childress High School Auditorium so that we can raiseBoy," I say "We’re doing a variety show to pay for BBB’s operation"

"You are, eh? Prince Tony went for that?"

"Franks backed it big-time Do you know any real-live divas?"

"Divas?"

"To be The KDFCs’ front wo front wolish, even though I taught them pretty well"

"Why don’t you be their front wo?"

"So will turn up," Donna says "I talked to Dr Weissmuller"

"So did I," I said

"So you know that BBB is fine"

"Yeah," I say "Until we get the biopsy anyway"

"One thing at a ti down her chin

When we pick up BBB, his belly is shaved and stitched up, and he is wearing a little lamp shade on his head

I carry BBB to Donna’s car, and we take B3 hoish at first, and doesn’t dig wearing the lampshade one bit--I know because he claws the hell out of it within the first forty-eight hours--so we eventually take it off, and BBB is eating and crapping merrily in no time at all

CHAPTER 55

A week later, I call Dr Weiss is cancer free

BBB and I celebrate by taking a bike ride over to the Methodist Retirement Home

We hit Alan’s Newsstand, and Alan says, "I’ht two tickets to The Save Bobby Big Boy Variety Show"

"Fro me for a week to buy tickets Must have been three hundred kids askedto be the bomb," I tell him as I pay for the Snickers and the hot chocolate with so me

"The what?" Alan says

"You won’t be disappointed," I say, even though I don’t even knohat the hell The Five are cooking up

And then BBB and I are stashing Donna’s bike behind a bush and offering Door Wo

"You get the Snickers and hot chocolate I sent you?" DWL says to ht, what’s been happening to you Ain’t right at all"

"Tell me about it"

"Your little boyfriends been ’round here selling tickets to some show they say you puttin’ on"

"Boyfriends?" I ask

"Tiny kid in a wheelchair Tall funky-lookin’ white kid Cute black kid with a beard"

"They’re not my boyfriends"

DWL sips her hot chocolate and then se ti on all about, anyway?"

"It’s a variety show"

"To honor yourBoy here He just had surgery See his scar?" I hold up BBB’s belly "It cost rand, so I have to raise money"