Fallout (Crank 3)

No pause. Now, wait a minute—

BUT I WAS ON A ROLL

“No, Mother. We usually do

only talk about you, and obviously

not about stuff that matters….”

My eyes stung, and the words

I wanted to say tried to stick

in my throat. I coughed them out.

“I have a sister. Where the hell

is she? What’s her name?

I already know who her father

is, and how you hooked up with

Dad and all. Have you always

been that way? Don’t you ever

feel bad? I mean, for God’s sake,

how can you just keep sleeping

around, piling one guy on top

of the next? How can you just

keep making babies, then tossing

them away? How can you …?”

Right about then I noticed

she had hung up the phone.

KORTNI BAILED DAD OUT

The next morning.

They might have

just booked him

&

nbsp; and let him go,

except for a couple

of pertinent things.