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Rubén Degollado. Throw

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A Novel

Rubén Degollado

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Brenda knew what was about to go down because she got between us and said, “Hey you all, this is my cousin Rey and his friend Eddie. They’re from Pharr. This is Ángel.” She put a hand on my arm and said, “And this is Cirilo, but we call him Güero.” Something changed in Rey’s eyes when Brenda introduced me, and he gave half a smile like he was saying, I know you. I know about you. What was up with that? The vato named Eddie gave Smiley an asco look, like he was disgusted about Smiley talking to Brenda. Smiley didn’t even notice the mad-dogging because his eyes were all over Brenda. But Smiley was that way anyway, always putting himself in places where he could get messed up and not even think about it, like crossing train tracks without looking both ways.

Rey and Eddie were both shorter than me or Ángel but were almost as big as Ángel in the shoulders. They were probably eighteen or nineteen, maybe even twenty. Now that we knew Rey was cousins with Brenda, we gave our qué ondas, the kind of looks where you just raise your chin a little, don’t smile at all, and wait for the other to look away first. If I had kept just looking down at him, it still could have started us going a couple of rounds. Brenda put her arms through mine and Ángel’s, pulled us away from Rey and asked, “So, how do you all like my new clothes?” Eddie didn’t seem to like that too much, the way she turned around in circles for us. Get over the feeling, I thought.

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