if she could have requested
she would have preferred ice cream
sherbet
or even a cookie
but no
the boy from next door
jumped the wall and sauntered to her
lay down in the chaise next to hers
he said he had been watching her
and thought they should talk
she told him her father thought
she should not talk to a boy
without at least one chaperone present
he said, but your father is not here now
he said it just before her father
crashed out the back door
carrying a gun and a belt
he told the boy the gun was for him
but not until he watched
her father use the belt on her
perhaps her father should have watched
the boy not panic but stand
the boy took the gun away from him
and tossed it in the pool
then forced her father's head under the water
and held it there while it bubbled
when the bubbles stopped
the boy pushed her father's body into the pool
looked sadly at her
and said she probably should call the police
she kept thinking later
how easily she took orders from him
instead of her father
her father had said that would happen
someday
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