Page 4 of Fight Me, Break Me


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“Hey,” I greeted.

He blinked. “Sup?”

“I’m Rowan.”

“Keaton.” He tipped his head toward my house. “You’re moving in?”

“Yeah.”

He looked at our car in the driveway. “Where’s your stuff?”

“It’s coming,” I said. “We have a moving truck and everything.”

He nodded slowly. “Okay.”

“How old are you?” I asked.

“Ten.”

“Me too.”

“Sweet.”

I pointed at his basketball. “Do you play a lot?”

He lifted a shoulder. “Just shoot hoops every day.”

“That’s cool.”

“You play?”

“I play baseball and do jiu-jitsu.”

His eyebrows lifted. “Like UFC?”

“No.” I shook my head. “That’s different.”

“My cousin watches it. People get punched.”

“We don’t punch,” I explained. “It’s more like wrestling.”

“You just roll around?”

I frowned. “It’s not just rolling around.”

“Sounds like rolling around.”

“It’s training. There are rules.”

“Do you win?”

“Yeah, I have six gold medals, three silver, and a bronze.” I beamed.

“So you can beat people up?”

“I didn’t say that, but also my dad would kill me if I got into a fight.”

He stared at me as if he didn’t expect that, then his face softened a little. “What do you do for fun?”