My Kind of Crazy by Robin Reul

Author:Robin Reul [Reul, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

15

For the last few weeks, my dad has been sitting on the couch in various states of intoxication and watching television, only getting up to pee or forage for food. I suspect this is what rock bottom looks like. It isn’t pretty. I try to avoid talking to him as much as humanly possible, heading straight to work from school and then right to my room when I get home. Working on the next installment of Freeze Frame has been a welcome distraction.

I’ve been thinking about what Peyton said about looking for a publisher for my comic. She’d loved it so much that she’d set a fire to get me out of class to tell me so. Mr. Vaughn seemed to like it too, even if he was stoned. Drawing is the only thing I know I’m good at, other than stacking cans of Campbell’s soup. Only one of those talents is delivering a paycheck right now, but for the first time, I’m hopeful that Freeze Frame could be my ticket out of here.

O’Callaghan gives me some extra shifts. I’m trying to work as much as I can, not just to make extra money, but also to keep busy so my brain doesn’t explode. Amanda still hasn’t posted her decision. The word around school is that she’s going to in a few days. She pretty much has to, because everyone’s making plans for prom, which is coming up soon.

I wonder if Nick is going to ask Peyton. Would she even go? She doesn’t seem like the type who would give a crap about a dance, even if it is some major “rite of passage.” I wouldn’t know because I haven’t seen them much. They’re probably too busy playing tonsil hockey to miss me. Far be it from me to get in the middle of their love fest.

Bottom line: the less I have to think about my life right now, the better.

Just when I am convinced Dad is going to permanently become one with the couch and never get out of his lucky Red Sox tee and boxer shorts again, a miracle happens. I’m heading out the door to work, and there he is, showered and shaved, with his hair combed and slicked back. He’s even wearing a tie.

“Got a job interview today,” he tells me. “Haven’t had one of those since before you were born.”

He paces back and forth in the living room, and there are faint rings of sweat under his armpits.

“Good luck! I’m sure you’ll knock it out of the park, Dad.” Truthfully, I’m a little nervous about what might happen if he doesn’t.

Maybe this is the week things will be looking up for the Kirbys.

Or maybe only for Dad, because when I arrive at the Shop ’n Save, O’Callaghan hands me a mop and a bucket and sends me off to do a cleanup in aisle five. Apparently, some dickhead decided it would be fun to punch holes in a bunch of V8 cans. The place looks like a crime scene, with sticky pools of red liquid everywhere.

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