The Kings Of Cool

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They come to the border.

(Yeah, well, everyone does, sooner or later.)

“Don’t be an asshole,” John says.

A little late for fatherly advice, Chon thinks, but he knows what John means. If there was a moment to make a break for it, this would be it-start yelling at the checkpoint, staffed with heavily armed Border Patrol agents, and there’s not a damn thing John or the two thugs could do about it.

“Your buddy Ben is still alive,” John says. “Get stupid here and he won’t be.”

That’s my dad, Chon thinks.

A real Boy Scout.

Always prepared.