The Theater

He spends many nights with his grandmother, many weekends. He loves her. His grandfather is nice, but scary, for some reason. He shrinks from him, and stays at her side. He reads, or watches TV, or writes or draws. She takes him to the movie theater, then after out to lunch, very often. He loves it. Even when he starts school, he visits her every two weeks, asking his mom every wednesday, "Is this Grandma week?"

Once, after a movie, the boy sits in his grandma's car. He thinks about how those people talk and act as if they were real. He wonders, what bout me? Am I real, or am I in a movie, like them? How could I know?

This worries him for many days. Finally, he decides that if his life is a movie, he will try not to do anything bad. He does not want the people in the theater to think he is a bad boy.