“Don’t start digging through your grandmother’s papers.”

And I said, “I wasn’t planning to.”

And he said, “Good,” and tapped the watch, and got in.

Part Three: The Mud

I waited until the cars were gone.

I want to be honest about why I went back, because the version that gets told to me now has me going back out of loyalty, and that is not what it was.

It was that Tyler had said, walking down the path, that Grandma would probably want us to spend whatever was left, and then he had said burgers, and I had said that wasn’t funny, and he had said he was hungry and walked faster.