Epilogue

Dear Robot:

Mike says hi! Weird thing is: Mike sometimes still calls me skinny. But now when I remind him that he chose to be nice, he apologizes. He’s asked me to hang out with him sometimes too. We both love dogs and video games and baseball. I may be skinny but I can hit the ball way further than he can!

My mom says hi too. We saw her last weekend. She’s doing great. She should be done with her program in another month. Then, we might be able to spend weekends with her. Hope you can come visit us too. Anyway, I gotta run. Mike just texted in the group chat. He saw a dog that looked just like you down the block. I wanna go see!

Your friend—

Max

 

Dear Robot:

Jessica and I aren’t exactly friends but she did text me to say she was sorry. And, when I passed her lunch table, Jessica smiled at me. Normally that’s when she’d call me Lily NoMama. So, that seems like a step. Anyway, another girl named Tish apologized for not speaking up. She’s friends with Jessica and said she was bad, too, for not stopping Jessica. So, that was nice. Tish has horses and her mom invited me, Max, Eileen, and Rico over to her farm to visit them. Tish said her horses help kids with trouble walking. She joked that they were Helper Horses! hahahahaha.

Rico and Eileen told me you went to visit Paul. Was it fun to be back at your old “house”? Hope so. I miss my old house. And my mom. Hope I get to see you soon. I have some stuff I want to say to my mom, but I need you to help me practice saying it.

xo—

Lily