100 Word Challenge: "Not Scary"

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge has not been traded to the New York Knicks in the Carmelo Anthony deal, contrary to previous reports. This week, the word is Frightened, and as those of you who can read headlines know, my story is called "Not Scary". In an additional twist I was simply too dim to engage in last week, you can now enter the Challenge right here, as well as reading all the other marvelous entries, in case clicking on the link to go to Velvet's site was just too complex.




Without further ado, here it is- "Not Scary".

"Nope, he's not scary."

Diesel 10, usually the villain in my nephew's imaginary play, sat on the floor.  

"Diesel 10's not scary?"

"Not scary." He looked at me, patiently waiting for me to catch on.

"You used to be scared of him." The past was gone, obliterated in the onrushing now.

"Not scary," he said, a little disgusted that I wasn't on board.

"Not scary?"

"Not scary." I remembered when I used to hold him, walking in circles in his yard, telling him about trees, and water, and yellow school buses. He was growing up.

Scary.