Jerry completely accepted Jo's apology. He didn't understand everything, but he'd learned by experience he often didn't understand everything a grownup meant. Kids were easier he thought even though he was something of a loner as a kid and spent more time with grownups, particularly his mother.
Jerry showed Jocelyn where he wanted the bread cut. "Mommy let me try one time, but it came out all crooked." he told her meaning that the slice was much to thin on one edge.
And she was right he didn't understand what she was saying at all about men and women. He just knew at kindergarten the boys and girls endlessly argued about which was better and he was clearly on the boys' team. Again it was more of a game to him claiming girls or boys had cooties, etc. He did know that families had a daddy and a mother. Well at least at first they did. He didn't have the latter anymore though he knew he had had one. He didn't think about it at all, That was just the way it was a mommy a daddy and kids though you didn't have to have both boy kids and girl kids in the same family. He asked his mother about a little brother, but she'd said they couldn't have one. It appeared you had to have a daddy to get one though he wasn't sure why.
He still wanted a Coke, but he knew not to argue too much. So when she suggested lemonade he agreed. "Oh we got everything you need, and I can make it all by myself." It didn't seem tht Jocelyn believed him, but he pushed a step stool to the refrigerator and opened the freezer on the top and took out a small container of lemonade concentrate. "You just have to put in three cans of water." He told her.
He went to the kitchen drawer and took out a can opener. Now this was the tricky part. It took him several tries but he finally managed to squeeze the handles together and get the top all the way cut off. Unfortunately it didn't lift up with the frozen concentrate but was still lying there on top. He'd told Jo he cold do it all by himself and he wanted to, but he remembered once he'd cut his finger trying to remove a top like this a while back and his mother had told him that he could try but if the top stayed on, she would lift it out so he didn't hurt himself.
Of course that had been a long time ago, and he was much older now. He was pretty sure he'd been only six then and he was six and a half now. He really did want to do it himself though. He looked at Jocelyn and bit his lower lip waiting to see what she'd say. "Sometimes it doesn't come all the way off and you gotta pull it."
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