Self-Help 101 or: How I Learned to Take Over the World Through Tolerating My Family by L.G. Keltner

Author:L.G. Keltner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: family, sarcasm, awkward love, teenage sweethearts, writing, romance, awkward age, arguments, snarky narrator, teenage drinking

Chapter 6

In which delusions and divisions make everything far too complicated and leave me completely out of my depth.

I guess I’m not totally heartless. That’s why I’m writing a book about taking over the world instead of actually doing it. So, even though I’d been threatening the kid with bodily harm mere minutes before, I couldn’t bring myself to leave him there like that. I felt uncertain as I took a seat beside him. The odds were high that I’d say the wrong thing, but it appeared as though no one else was even going to try.

“Are you okay?” I asked.

Corey noticed me for the first time, and he leaned away, putting his hands up in a defensive maneuver.

“I’m not here to rip your head off or anything,” I assured him. “Yeah, I was going to kick your butt earlier, but this whole mess seems to have done that for me. I don’t believe in kicking a man when he’s down.”

He puffed up a bit and dropped his hands. “I am a man, and I’m fine. It’s nice of you to ask, but none of that bothered me.”

Oh dear. Acting tough when he wasn’t certainly wouldn’t get us anywhere. “Are you sure? Most people would be shaken up by seeing their parents fight like that. It wouldn’t make you look bad if you were upset.”

He shook his head. “Nah. I know that most people would be, sure, but I’m not most people. I’m too chill to let anything mess with me.”

This was definitely a bad idea.

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