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Du the water out the back door, I turned to fill it and themy eyes, I didn’t look at hiether I’et past that icy wall you have built around you like a fortress Help me," his voice was lower than noret a point across

Frustrated, I cut off the water and lifted aze to meet his "I don’t need friends"

He frowned "Yeah, you do"

"No I don’t I have friends I don’t want more"

"You have a job you work at all the time You leave to sleep, then return You can’t have any friends," he argued

"Why don’t you stop trying to figure outyou about your prison time, or your stupid name Do me a favor and stay out of my business"

I took the ot my point across

"Shane He’s been irlfriend just had a baby They need his income to live When he chose to sell weed for extra cash and I was pulled over while driving his car because mine was in the shop, the cops found the weed I didn’t knoas in there If I’d claimed it was his, he’d have been busted They were after hih school kids I took the blah I hadn’t asked the story was interesting

"When I was eight, Pop told as in his truck while he paid for it I didn’t want to tell him I didn’t kno My dad was never hoasI didn’t want to let hiet it towed and drained"

It tookas I stared at the door in front of h yet His naiven from a childhood mistake Not because it was a cool prison na and I took a breath before turning back to look at hied "Pop called me Diesel from that day on Back home I’m Charlie"

Charlie His name was Charlie It fit hi like one Maybe that hat annoyedto prison wasn’t getting to ht was that went beyond friendship, but then I realized I’d do the same for Dixie I would think she was insane and needed to be slapped but I would do the sa

"Charlie fits you better," I finally said

He nodded "That’s what my mother says She hates when they call me Diesel But I like it Reminds me of a time when life was simple"

My childhood had never been simple I didn’t respond

"You don’t have to tell me why you hate me But at least tell me why you never smile"

I’d rather tell him why I hated hiuy who did so so selfless for his best friend? "I don’t hate you," I said, then held "

He just smiled and shook his head

I started to open the door, then stopped He had done nothing todifficult wasn’t fair He orking just as hard as I was Turning back to him, I smiled "If there’s any pie left, I’d like a piece I’"