When he gently touched his arm, the baby grabbed his shirt and buried his face against him.A suspended moment
A little further on, an old rusty wheelbarrow was abandoned. Lucas approached her, wiped the dust as best he could, and gently placed the child inside, making sure it was stable before moving it.
He pushed gently.
The baby burst out laughing.
A clear, frank, contagious laugh.
Lucas froze, surprised. Then he laughs too.
For a few seconds, he was no longer invisible. He was no longer the boy who was rejected.
He was simply a child making another child laugh — a moment suspended out of the world.
The arrival of the adult world
"My son!"
The voice echoed in the alley.
