Cody
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They turned it over.
There was a tear along the back, a long one, running from the collar down to about the middle of the back.
The fabric was pulled apart, not cut, torn, with the edges frayed.
Lenny folded the jacket.
We don't tell Travis, he said.
Lenny.
Not yet.
We walked back to camp.
I carried the jacket.
Bud was quiet.
Lenny was quiet.
I was a 19-year-old kid, and they were treating me like someone who needed to keep it together, so I kept it together.
We hid the jacket in Lenny's truck cab, under the passenger seat.
When Travis came back to camp that evening, we told him we hadn't found it yet.
He cussed about it for 10 minutes and then forgot about it when Lenny opened a bottle of Jim Beam and passed it around.
That was Wednesday night.
Thursday, I woke up and I didn't want to be there.
I wanted to be home.
I wanted to be at the Hannaford Bagging Groceries.
I wanted to be anywhere else.