[Flashback | Tom and Huck | Eight year olds playing together]

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Hey! Heeey [Leo whispered just as loud as a whisper could go. He was fed up of throwing pebbles that his friend never seemed to notice. He guessed they weren't big enough to make a decent noise, but any bigger might break his window and he wasn't about to get into shit with Aydin's old man. No sir.]

Aydin! Git up. Come on.

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Ten whole minutes. [Leo pondered. It seemed like a long time, but whatever, it'd be worth it.]

We can do it. Not like my momma's gonna miss me, n'yer daddy neither. So we can stay twenty minutes. Hell, sixty minutes if we wanna!

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we can do it [he grinned and fist pumped the air]

but what'ya wanna do while we wait? [he kicked his feet and looked at the lake thinking] the water looks like the sky look it!

[he pointed at the water and looked back at Leo]

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Sure does! [Leo smiled.] 'Cept it's all turned around in the reflection. See? Everything's in the wrong place.

[He looked at the stars for a moment in the reflection of the water, falling silent. Those were the stars his momma loved so much. They were so bright and shining, not like the other things she seemed to love. Drinkin' and smoking and men, all of her loves were cloudy. His smile fell the longer he stared and he suddenly felt kind of sad, even though nothing bad was happening.]

I don't think you can get the future out of stars. Do you? You know most of 'em are already burnt out. The light we get is already done. How you supposed to get the future outta somethin' what's in the past?