Law & Beard by Lani Lynn Vale

Author:Lani Lynn Vale [Vale, Lani Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-07T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I don’t give a sip.

-Coffee Cup

Steel

“But, Mom!”

Winnie’s eyes narrowed, and I knew that she was about to blow.

“I told you what I wanted,” she snapped. “I realize that you think you’re an adult at sixteen years old, but you’re not. You’re a minor. I am responsible for you until you turn eighteen, or you emancipate yourself from my care. I don’t want you to do that, but that threat isn’t going to work anymore on me. They’re fucking pants. If you don’t want to wear them, oh goddamn well. I had to deal with this crap when I was in high school, and never once did I complain. Why? Because I knew the rules. If I didn’t like the rules, that was just too goddamn bad. I knew better than to think the rules were going to change just because I didn’t like them.”

Winnie’s daughter’s eyes went electric.

“You compare yourself to me all the time. Let me tell you something, Mom. Things have changed.”

“No, the only thing that has changed is that kids feel entitled to things that they have no right to feel entitled to. What’s changed is parents allowing their children to act like assholes by letting them get away with it.”

“It’s a pair of shorts, Mom.”

“NO,” she snapped. “It is not. It’s a pair of shorts that violates the dress code. The dress code that you violated last week and got sent home for. I don’t have time to take off of work to come get you. I especially won’t have the desire to come get you when you knew going in that you were violating the dress code. So, here’s your choice. You wear jeans, or you wear shorts. Just know that if you’re sent home, and I have to come get you, you will be grounded for the next two weeks. In that time, I will throw every single pair of shorts you own in the trash so you have no choice but to wear pants anymore. Also, you can kiss your phone goodbye.”

I listened to the two of them argue from my driveway and wondered if I should wade in.

However, with Conleigh not being my daughter—because if she had she would’ve known better than to try to get away with wearing those shorts outside of the house—I had no say so in what was said or done.

Instead, I chilled, waiting for the fight to sputter out.

“Mother, boys sexualize everything. Why should I have to wear pants because they can’t control their urges?”

See, here’s where I realized that Winnie didn’t actually know that I was there, otherwise she wouldn’t have said what she said next.

“Are you dense?” Winnie snarled.

“No.”

“I think you are.”

“I don’t think I am.”

“Well you are,” she said. “Why? Because it has nothing to do with boys not controlling themselves, and everything to do with the fact that it’s something that both sexes do equally.”

“How do you figure?”

“Because I can’t help but look when things are blatant either, and I’m an adult,” Winnie snapped.

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