Fool of Main Beach by Tara Lain

Author:Tara Lain [Lain, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-966-6
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-08-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

“DID YOU like the pizza, Lily?” Tom maneuvered the truck from in front of Merle’s house and headed toward the highway.

“Yeah. It was good.”

“It was nice of Merle to take us.”

She shrugged and stared out the window. “I imagine he’s got plenty of money. No big for him. Besides, they about gave him everything.”

“He left a tip bigger than the bill.” Tom frowned. “Just because he has some money doesn’t mean he has to give it to us. He had to work very hard and eat a lot of ramen noodles to get that money.”

She flounced in her seat. “Yeah, yeah.”

“Money doesn’t grow on trees, Lily.”

“Oh, come on, Tom, don’t lecture me. I get enough of that crap at home.”

He pulled up to a stoplight on PCH headed toward north Laguna. “Mom and Dad just want you to have a good life.”

She turned, and he could feel her staring at him. It made his ears hot. She said, “Right, like they wanted you to have a good life?”

“Kind of. They didn’t want people in the church to be mean to me and stuff.”

“So they tossed you out like a piece of shit with no money and no way to take care of yourself. Grow a brain, Tom. They’re despicable.”

“What?” He stared hard out the windshield.

“Despicable. I learned it in a book I read. It means, like, really bad.”

He swallowed hard. “Do you think they’re really bad?”

“Yeah, I do. They say all this Bible shit, but they treat anybody who’s not exactly the same as them like a pile of dirt. I think the Bible’s a load of crap, but I know it doesn’t teach people to act like that. They made that up all on their own. And I know you send them money ’cause I see the envelopes, but they act like you never did anything for them. They’re despicable.”

It was really hard to think of his mom and dad like that. He pressed the accelerator, and they wound through town. He took a breath. “Do they treat you bad, Lily?”

“Huh, define bad. They feed me and give me clothes and shit.” She leaned toward him, and he glanced at her scary frown. “But I don’t like the way they’re talking. There’s this man who’s, like, fifty or something, and he’s got money, and they keep talking him up to me like they want me to marry him. Yeah, well, that’ll happen right after some goddamn pigs go to heaven. I’ll cut off his balls and run away.”

He looked at her out of the side of his eyes. “You kind of already did, didn’t you, Lily? I mean, you’re here.”

She got very, very quiet.

“Do you really have time off from school?”

She sighed. “I don’t go to school.”

“What?” His foot stomped the brake so he didn’t hit the Beemer in front of him.

“They tell you I’m going to private school, but they keep the bucks and homeschool me. That’s why I brought all those books with me. So I don’t miss anything.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.