When she returned, she didn’t say anything except, ‘Hello.’ She went back to work and I went to work. At 5 p.m. the rest of the office had start...d filling out, but she was staying her extra hour. So I stayed. At 5:30 p.m., when everyone else had pretty much vacated, she asked me, ‘Patrick, are you leaving soon for your weekend?’ ‘I’ll go when I want to go,’ I snapped. She pivoted around in her office chair. I could tell she was facing in my direction. ‘Something wrong?’ I shook my head not. My father died a fewyears back. So it's just the three of us. When my mom has her late shiftI been keeping an eye on my brother for the most part. Sometimes, likeFridays and the weekends he goes and sleeps over his friends Ronnie's.Which I thought this was gonna be one of those nights. I was wrong. Orso I thought.Neil came running thru the door!! "Charlie!! Charlie!! You here??" Over here numbnuts," I yelled from the couch. "The Phils game is aboutto start, what do you want?" I said without. ‘He’s a bit flustered, Brent. He doesn’t want to say the wrong thing or ask the wrong question. I think he was surprised that Andy left so soon. He was counting on her doing all the quizzing, I’ll bet.’ Again, Bonnie didn’t seem worried or nervous about meeting his son and daughter. She had more confidence than he had at this moment, he thought. Brent and Bonnie sat beside each other in the deck chairs and waited for Scott to reappear. It took an unusually long time for him to retrieve a soft. He staggered to his feet. Roger looked up and said, “You wanna go shoot pool tomorrow?” Crain shrugged, “Sure, I guess.” It became a weekly or bi-weekly thing: their getting high and sucking each other off. They never talked about it – they just did it. Crain’s attitude changed. He was no longer the only person in the world. He had a mate. He no longer felt the need to rebel. He became interested in his studies again and his grades vastly improved. He only had to keep his association with a.