Sociopath?

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Book: Sociopath? Read Online Free PDF
Author: Vicki Williams
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say that about him. He’d even asked his teacher one
time after someone had said it.
    “What about me would make someone think I’m
arrogant? I don’t try to lord it over anyone. I don’t try to rub it
in when I do well at something. I’m never mean to anyone.”
    Privately, the teacher herself thought she
might have described Rafe as arrogant but when she tried to put her
finger on why, she was at a loss. It was true what he said. He
wasn’t one of those kids who tried to make himself the center of
attention and he never boasted about his accomplishments and
probably of all the elite group of which he was nominally a part,
he was the nicest to the less popular ones. In fact, he was as
friendly to the students who were called low-lifes as he was to the
movers and shakers, (although she’d noticed that he wasn’t really
close to anyone in either group). He wasn’t judgmental about race
or sexual orientation or disability or socioeconomic
background.
    She finally decided it was just something
about the way he held himself apart and that look he had that said
he didn’t really care what anyone else thought of him, that they
were welcome to take him or leave him as he was and it didn’t much
matter to him one way or the other.
    That’s finally what she told him.
    “I guess it’s because you seem like you don’t
care what people think, Rafe, and everyone wants to believe people
care what they think.”
    “I don’t care what they think, Mrs. Harper,
if they’re right, but I don’t like being tagged with a label that’s
wrong.”
    “I don’t know how to tell you to make it any
different, Rafe.”
    He shrugged and then smiled that devastating
but quickly disappearing smile. “Guess I’ll just have to live with
it then, huh?”
    He was only 10 but she felt a little thrill
go down her spine at that smile. She almost called him back to tell
him that it might go a long way toward changing people’s minds
about him but she didn’t. She was afraid what he might do with it
if he ever found out how potent it could be.
    *
    His coaches loved his capacity for speed and
stealth. You could pass him a football and the next thing anyone
knew, he’d be crossing the goal line. Or give him a basketball and
he’d be sinking one while the other team was still looking for him.
Or he’d hit a single and turn it into a triple before anyone
tracked his location on the baseball field. From the first day he
started playing junior league sports, he never knew what it was
like to have to sit on the bench.
    * *
    It was her 9th birthday. As usual, the only
reason she had a party was because of Rafe. Once again, he’d
tracked down his mother.
    “Next week is Lane’s 9th birthday, Mom. I
remember years when you even forgot to give her a cake or buy her a
present. Don’t you think it’s time she had a party, maybe have some
of the kids from her class over?”
    “That’s a wonderful idea, Rafie, but I don’t
know who is in her class. I don’t suppose you could give me some
names?”
    Silently, he handed her the list he’d gotten
from Lane’s teacher.
    Magdelene had invited all the students in
Lane’s class and their parents and her teacher. She had a red and
white striped tent put up in the back yard and hired clowns and a
magician and had the stable hands bring up the horses for rides.
There was a big banner that said “Happy 9th Birthday, Laney” and
games to play and a huge cake with her name on it in red and clumps
of scarlet balloons tied everywhere. And her gift was Rafe’s idea -
her very own horse, a little palomino Arab mare named Lisbon. It
was one of the most joyous days of her life. Rafe, watching, smiled
wryly - once you could get their Mother’s attention, you could
count on her to do it up right.
    No matter what else was going on though, Lane
kept thinking about being in bed that night with Rafe and about
what he was going to do. Each time she thought about it, she got a
tingling sensation in her belly. Half
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