Then she put her hand on top of mine and said, "It's okay, West. I don't want you to go. And I'm not mad anymore either. You were just temporarily stupid. What boy doesn't hit that mark at least ten times a day?"
When she started to pull her hand away, I covered it with mine and squeezed. And she squeezed back.
Ryan Dean West was actually holding hands with a girl who wasn't his mom.