Fallout (Crank 3)

I end up with you when

Mom went to prison?”

He looks at me like I’m

speaking Chinese. Hasn’t

anyone ever told you this

stuff? Not your mom? Not

my mom? Seriously?

“If someone had, I wouldn’t

be asking, Dad. Not like

I need to have stories

repeated. I’m not a little kid.”

He smiles tightly. Even when

you were little, you never

did want to hear the same

story twice. Buying books

for you was a waste of money,

not that we ever had a whole

lot to waste. So, okay, how

much, exactly, do you know?

“Only what you told me at

Thanksgiving. That she was

married to your old friend, Trey,

and that you broke them up.”

HE COCKS HIS HEAD

Reaching way back into his brain,

trying to locate that night.

I said that? Guess I was pretty

buzzed. Don’t remember it at all.

Yes, Trey and I were friends, and I was

passing through. Don’t remember