QUOTE : Hey!”<br /><br />“What is it, Eggers?” Dad walks out of the kitchen in his windbreaker and running shorts and looks up the stairs.<br /><br />“Do I have to walk around with Church and Sully for Halloween this year?”<br /><br />Dad frowns. “Church and Sully are doing Halloween this year? Are they too old for that yet?”<br /><br />He asks it honestly, because he really doesn’t remember. He knows they’re in the same grade, and that they’re under fourteen because they play on all U-14 sports teams, but anything beyond that is details. Sully is fourteen, Church is thirteen; born elevenmonths apart exactly, and most people think they’re twins.<br /><br />“They’re kind of too old for it, yeah,” I say.<br /><br />“Oh. Well, ask your mom.”<br /><br />“Is she home right now?”<br /><br />“No, she took Davy for her quick 10K with her marathon students.”<br /><br />“What? Davy can’t run a 10K!”<br /><br />He holds his hands up in surrender. “They’re jogging, and the slow students always take care of him anyway. He’s fine.