"You probably don't want to know," he said. "Anyway, so I hurried, and Jaimie and I stopped at your house on the way, but you guys had already left, s... I picked up Stephen, and he went with us to the hospital." Really? Stephen was there, too?" I guess the news didn't really surprise me all that much.Jake looked at me kind of funny. "Of course he was," he said."It turns out that Tara had been in labor most of the day, but didn't tell anybody," continued Jaimie. "She thought it was false labor or. ”Becky;“I can’t believe this is happening. This is all your fault, you and your damned short cut. You’d think you would have learned the first time. Now how are we going to get home from cheerleading with your car wrecked?”C “O shut up. Like you will have any problem getting home”“What do you me?”C “Just ask Terry I’m sure he would love to take you home considering what happened at Jason’s party last month.”“How do you know about that?”C “Please everyone know you fucked him after the party when. “Put the box on the bed and open it.” he orders. Then he goes closer,while still holding me in front of him, and gives a look. “Fuck! Is that all you got?” he asks. My mother nods. “These are toys, not jewels!” he says disappointed. “Isn't there anything of value in this fucking house?” he asks, obviously frustrated. “Take my portable computer!” I urge him. “Too big to carry!” “I have a video camera. It's very small and light and quite expensive.” I try again. For a while there's no reaction.. Larry’s grandpa called to him, “Come play bocce with us.”Larry looked at me and said in a low voice “I hate this game.”I had learned to play bocce when we had lived in California. One of my dad’s friends had a bocce setup and I played all the time from ages five to nine. I’d only played occasionally since then.“Larry, I love bocce. Think they would let me play instead?”“Maybe,” he replied, then spoke to his grandfather, “Grandpa, Steve could play if you wanted.”“Him?” Don Joseph asked gruffly..