Hot Laps by Shey Stahl

Author:Shey Stahl [Stahl, Shey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age, Romance, Contemporary
Amazon: B00JYKUJ6M
Publisher: Shey Stahl
Published: 2014-04-26T21:00:00+00:00

Sunday morning I was in my room with Cole, who seemed normal today, and Noah deciding on how we were going to fix the pool before Dad got home. It looked disgusting. I was tempted to hire someone to clean it.

We’d gotten most of the house clean but it was a little hard to fix the carpet in the living room since we had to replace all of it. And then there was the matter of putting away all my mom’s clothes again. Still hadn’t done that either.

Outside there was the issue of the pool and the mud caked on the side of the house.

Fuck, we had a mess.

I blamed Hayden for this. All week I was with her getting drunk and thinking with my dick.

Now look at me.

My phone started ringing on my nightstand. Jumping slightly, the sound scared us since it was quiet in my room after Noah went downstairs.

“What?” I answered, knowing it was Rosa, who was downstairs.

“Your Dad is coming up there.”

“What the fuck is he doing here?” Cole, who was slouched against the wall smoking a cigarette I told him to put out five times now, looked up at me in full on panic.

“Came home early,” Rosa said. “Engine blew in Calistoga last night and he’s not happy.”

“Uh, tell him I’m not home,” I snapped.

Rosa snapped right back at me. “Fuck you. You tell him you’re not here. I’m not telling him that.”

She was so inconsiderate.

“Rosa, it wouldn’t make any sense if I told him that. Then he’d know I was here.”

After a moment of silence, I did what any other kid would do. I begged her.

“Oh, come on, Rosa! Can’t you just please tell him I’m not here? You saw the house. He’s gonna kill me, or kick me out. You wouldn’t want that, would you? Who would snuggle with you and watch movies?”

She sighed, I was wearing her down slowly but surely.

I paused in my groveling, waiting, when she said nothing.

Unbelievable.

“Where is he?”

“In the living room staring at the piece of carpet missing. He looks pissed,” she laughed. “I can see the veins popping out of his head from here.”

“Thanks for helping,” I said sarcastically. “Knock something over to divert him.”

Just then, Cole stood and walked over to my bedroom window.

“And where the fuck do you think you’re going, asshole? Get back here,” I started jabbing my finger at the floor. “Sit the fuck down. It was your idea to have that band play and shoot mud balls out of that bead seater. It was also your idea for the fucking jelly. And what about the carpet? Did you actually think he wouldn’t notice a piece missing?”

“It’s better than the alternative, Casten,” he said sourly walking back to his place on the floor. “That shit was still smoking in the morning. We’re lucky the fire department didn’t show up.”

“Relax for a while,” I said to Cole when he slid down the wall to sit on the floor. “We could be here for a while once he finds us.

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