#( Also layber is on purpose bc Cole is child. c: )

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The lady has a lot of scars.

She looks like she could be a layber worker. Mama said layber workers are people who work hard with their hands and their bodies, and many of them have lots of scars all over. It’s a hard life for hard money, Mama said. When he asked her, “Don’t you have a hard life too sometimes?” Mama just smiled, passed him a warm cookie from the cooling rack, and reminded him that’s why it was important to be kind. Everyone has some scars on their hearts. 

Not sure why they’re called layber workers, though. It doesn’t sound like anyone is laying around and kicking their feet up on the job. 

Cole digs through his bag and pulls out a tupperware container. One last cookie from their baking time together this weekend. He saved it during lunch---and, miraculissly, from Tommy Tammissimo. It’s not like giving your food to bullies is really sharing anyway. 

“You look sad today, Miss. I’ve got a cookie, if that’ll cheer you up. Mama says cookies make your heart warm and right as rain.”