We stopped by Fossil where I bought Wes a new watch, and Janie, with her allowance, bought her brother a new wallet, presents for his graduation. Elen... picked him up a suit from Armani and planned to have it tailored immediately. Wes wasn’t going like being pinned and pricked, but he had to wear a nice suit for his graduation.“When are you gonna marry my brother?” Janie asked as we walked out of Starbucks with some Frappuccinos. Elena was sipping her iced latte, while Janie and I had gone for. All that would do was whet his appetite. We could probably get to his boss, but if his boss told him to back off, that might solidify, in his mind, that something really big was going on. He was going to gnaw on this bone regardless of what we did.In the end, it was Bobby who came up with the solution. He moved the bone somewhere else.“I don’t have to be there to do what I do,” he said. “I can stay here and do it. He’ll be watching me, and things will happen that I obviously couldn’t have done. She grabbed the hamper and took it to the boy's rooms. Tommy's rathergrimy t-shirt reminded her to get laundry going this morning. Shewrinkled her nose at the smell of Tommy's room. "That boy," she huffed.Thinking back to her own boyhood, she laughed at how unkempt she'd beentoo. The usual supercar posters and girly pics adorned the walls. Shepicked up the clothes she could see, socks, and underwear, and beat ahasty retreat.Alex's room was different. He was just on the cusp of puberty, no. I thought the only reason you brought them up yesterday was to break the ice with Aunt Linda, just to get the talk around to sex." Didn't need those matchbooks to tell me about your father's cheating," Patty stated. "Believe me, a wife just always knows. I've been looking the other way for years, letting your father think that what I supposedly don't know won't hurt me. And it's worked out just fine. He's so busy covering his tracks that he's never suspected me of anything." See what you mean,.