Time frame: Keith and Ellis are both 16, Keith is 4 months shy of being 17.
POV: Ellis
Main event: Keith's battle with a rake
Did I ever tell you about the time that Keith broke his nose for the first time? We were outside cleanin up the yard on account of it being autumn and his dad wantin us to rake up the leaves. So we each had a rake and I was doin a way better job than him to be honest. He was getting tired real easy, stopping to rest a ton of times. I think he may have been comin down with a cold.
Well, he lays his rake down on the grass (big mistake) and goes to get a coke, thinkin maybe his blood sugar was low again. Last time that happened he had a seizure, so he didn't want that again. Well, he gets his coke and comes back.
He's like, "Where the hell did I put my rake?" And he's lookin around for it and BANG! He stepped on the right corner of it and the rake handle shoots up and smacks him square in the crotch. He yells and doubles over in pain and I can't help but laugh and ask if he was okay. I went over and helped him stand back up and get his bearings again. He turned to grab his own rake and was literally less than an inch from steppin on *my* rake that I sat down when I went to go help him up.
His foot is paused in the air and then he sees it out of the corner of his eye, because his focus was actually on his own rake which was directly to the left of him. He steps back one pace and he gave my rake the finger and said, "Not again, you sneaky sumbitch."
Suddenly, his alarm goes off in his pocket and he gets real excited and yells, "Dragon Ball is on!" and he takes off to the left to run into the house and watch it. Only…his rake was directly to the left and, you guessed it, he stepped on it again and this time it was a full on step and it hit him in the nose and mouth real hard. I mean you could hear it across the yard I bet. It made a loud THWACK CRUNCH sound.
His nose was obviously broken and it looked real funny and was bleedin like a stuck pig. His lip was split open and even though I tried to get him to go get it fixed, he told me he was gonna watch Dragon Ball first, so we did. We sat in the house and watched Dragon Ball while he soaked a towel all the way through with his blood.