"Yeah Walter, it was true." The part about Glen and George?" Yes." Before Christmas? You're sure?" That's why she did it with Jimmy and I, Walter, to ...eep me from telling you like I told her I was going to do. Not that that makes me any less guilty for doing that to you." You were going to tell me? Why?" Well, you are my brother. I didn't want you to end up marrying a girl who can't be faithful." So, you were going to do me a favor, and tell me about her and Glen and George, and she tempted. The name on his birth certificate had ceased to have any importance so long ago that Edgar Charles Smith IV never mentioned it. No one cared that he was fourth in a line of three American success stories. He was as successful as he wanted to be and didn’t need the baggage that came with his name. That baggage would hang around his neck like a noose for the rest of his life.So “Eddie the Rat “or just “Rat,” would do fine.Tony and Eddie sat with hard hats at their elbows and heartily dug into. "I was getting tired of her using Demie's pet name for me. "She ran away, Katie," I responded."Shit!" She turned back to the closet as it made a grinding noise. She was clearly concerned, as she hadn't even corrected me on her name. We both headed over to the closet. I could see her extradimensional rooms behind it, but the air in the closet doorway was shimmering."Fuck!" Kate took a running dive through the portal...and stopped halfway, her ass held in mid-air. She seemed to have gotten stuck. Almost a month passed and he was suddenly cold and dreary. Hisface became wrathful and ominous. He never smiled at me anymore. He nevertalked to me, just word or two. And he never referred to me by my namejust "kid". Maybe I just exaggerated myself and the true reason wassomewhere else, but then I was just fifteen and saw him, the emphaticallymasculine man, and me, the freak (by my Mother's word) denying mymasculinity I'd inherited from him in favor of femininity.I just put two and two. There.