.." Oh I am sorry dear, I'll just be going then."We watched as Edith walked back across the street, then went inside. Iwas shaking, but mom put me to ...work, and I soon calmed down. When we weredone I touched up my lipstick, then went in the kitchen to get a sodawhen, to my great horror, I saw Megan looking right at me, through thecurtain free window in the back door! Megan was smiling and waving at me.There wasn't one thing I could do about the fact that she had seen me,completely dressed as a. Why the hell make Duane mad at me when he's my boss? He might give me a raise or something if I put out. I shivered and sat up. You know why you fight, don't you, Lee! Because you're scared to death of him! Because he's not just talking about balling you... not that sonofabitch!Just about that time, Mark came back from breakfast and said something about going out to kick around a football with some of the kids. Said he wouldn't be in until about lunch time. So I reminded him how it pissed Ma. "Andrew, I want you to tell me why your grades have fallen so much! You've been an absolute terror since the first of the year, moody, sloppy, curt, even nasty at times! Tell me what's going on. Maybe we can help." I was sitting at my computer desk as mom looked at me, her normally beautiful face screwed into one of bewilderment and anger. "You wouldn't understand." "This cannot go on young man. You tell me what's bothering you, and I mean right now!" Her red tipped finger was pointed at me,. Now onlypartially hiding behind the restlessly unfolded newspaper, Tim's stepfatherdangerously positioned the paper so that when Tim came through the screendoor he might catch a glimpse of his stepfather nonchalantly allowing thehead of his penis to balloon out of the top of his trousers- to see whatkind of reaction Tim would have toward this inflating piece of meat thatbegged for attention in a house recently left all to themselves for theafternoon.Just as Tim was about to pull the latch to.