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Who was I kidding? A girl like Jessie--the way she’d talked to the guys fro to take any shit and certainly not frouy like me, which hy I never hooked up with anybody in front of her before
She’d give me the business, already did in her oay, and I liked having her as a friend But I could tell she loved it when I gave it right back We could ping-pong off each other and I could explore a healthy way to be around a girl For once
Still, since that night at the bar, I hadn’t gotten any kind of release except froined her beneathbed And every tie question this week, I pictured us way up high on that blue viaduct getting it on for the entire world to see
I turned the corner into the Waterford Development and then pulled into the shallow driveway up to the house I grew up in what soe-ass ets but I’d give it all up in a heartbeat if my mom finally announced that she’d leave my dad’s ass
As it was now, the tension was at an all-tih ere all in the same room--it was almost like Dad knew that since I’m an adult, I could take hi the line to keep up appearances But having my asshole brother there only fueled the fire
My father still travelled quite a bit for business so tonight it was just the three of us My ed dinner forhelped her relax She seemed more like her true self when she wasn’t under my father’s thumb
I always made sure to show up early soher on oryear and it twisted my stomach inside out to witness it
Especially since it had always been e of our beds listening to the fights, the anger, the crying Now, it was as if that experience had hardened him as much as it had softened me I couldn’t wrap my brain around it But suddenly the two of us were as different as night and day
Luke pulled in behind me in his ridiculousThose cars were stupid as shit and only made him look like more of a meathead than he was He was in his senior year at Rockwell University and was on the winning football teaht I was built--but then I’d visit hiue school and feel se behindup Anna in a couple of hours" Anna was his latest girlfriend and I’ll admit it, their relationshipher around, I’d check for signs of intiive a clue that he’d finally crossed that line I had no proof, just a niggling feeling and a ularly
My lass of wine Her blond hair was up in a arden She loved planting fresh herbs and root vegetables
"Hi, Mom" I took two strides forward and kissed her cheek "Whatever you’re cooking sood"
"It’s chicken divan" Mo out new recipes Before shebusiness I figured if she ever left this ain
"You know," I said "There was a sign in theat this culinary school on Front Street They were looking for soroup"