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dad asked,
peering over the top of his newspaper at me, my mother looking as well.
    “ I have no idea, maybe a nap,” I
said dryly.
    “ I found a young man to do some
work around here. Mark told me about him,” he said, sipping his
coffee.
    “ Yeah,” I said, not trying to act
as if I was concerned.
    “ He does handy work so I thought I
would give him a go, have him clean the eaves and reroof the
garage- some of the things Gray doesn’t want to do.”
    Gray looked up alarmed. “It’s not
that I don’t want to. It would just be easier for you to get
someone a little more….”
    “ Competent?” I asked, smiling at
the invitation to insult him. Gray gave me a look of disgust
shoving a piece of toast in his mouth.
    “ No, no, it’s fine Gray. This kid
seemed rather willing to get it done; maybe he needs the money or
something. Mark said he is paying his way through school I
believe.”
    “ How do you know that he is paying
his way?” I asked my dad. He was so quick to assume things about
people, it always irritated me. For all he knew this guy could have
had a full scholarship and was doing this just for the fun of it.
Or out of sheer boredom. He didn’t know, but he always liked to
think he did.
    “ Oh, I don’t Eve. It was just a
guess sweetheart.” He went back to reading.
    “ Why are you so defensive? You
worried it’s your little lover boy you had over the other day?”
Gray threw his words out like a dagger, grinning with amazement as
if he had scored a goal or something.
    My parents both stopped what they
were doing to look at me.
    “ You’re a moron; I simply asked
him a question. Why do you feel it necessary to share my business,
that isn’t even business might I add, with the whole
world?”
    “ You share mine. And besides that,
you like to annoy me, so I’m paying you back. “
    “ Paying me back? You’re
ridiculous. What do you think Mom and Dad are going to do? Ground
me because a boy came onto our porch and talked to me?” I laughed
evilly. “I’ve seen your girlfriend leaving our house after two in
the morning.”
    Gray slammed his fork down, his
face red, his eyes glaring even harder at me.
    “ Glare all you want it’s not going
to do anything.”
    “ Oh really?” he
asked, with his sly smile. He looked at Mom and Dad for a few seconds, biting his lip, I rolled my
eyes. My parents stared at the both of us like we were nuts. I
don’t think they knew what to say.
    “ Well, I wonder if telling Mom
that you go out in the woods to get drunk would.”
    I chucked my banana peel at
his face. My mother gasped, clutching her
chest. I racked my brain for something more to say about him to
outdo what he had said about me, make the sting a little less to my
parents, but I didn’t have much. “You watch porn!” I yelled,
kicking him under the table.
    Gray laughed, shaking his head.
“Oh big deal, every grown man watches porn sometime in their life.”
He got up from the table taking his plate like a good
son.
    “ Sit down!” my
dad ordered angrily.
    Gray’s amusement left
quickly. I smiled but quickly stopped as my dad pounded his fist on the table to get our
attention.
    “ What is going on with you two?”
He looked at each of us. Gray didn’t say anything.
    “ I don’t do it all the time,” I
said, slinking down in my seat. My mother closed her eyes,
clutching her head.
    “ You don’t do it at all!” he
yelled, spit flying from his mouth. “You are eighteen. It’s illegal
to drink any time. What has gotten into you Eve?!”
    I blinked, looking at Gray.
This was his entire fault. I didn’t try to explain myself, there
was no point. My dad didn’t get it, I
wasn’t doing anything crazy, but he would never understand anything
I said to him.
    “ I do not want to ever hear about
you doing anything like that again. And what about this guy?” he
said, his voice dying down.
    “ I don’t know what the big deal
is. I met him in the woods the other day and he came by the