5
“WHY WOULD HE WANT YOU?"
"He probably just wants to get in her pants."
Pumpkin gave herself credit for being intelligent. She'd graduated first in her high school class and Summa c*m Laude from a prestigious college. But this one lesson, one that she'd known since elementary school, she simply could never retain; never bother to tell her family about anything good going on in her life.
Pumpkin's memory lapse started right before dinner when LaRon began telling them all about her latest conquest at a local bar that men in the Armed Services frequented. LaRon's latest victim, a pilot, was headed out to Afghanistan in two months.
"Perfect timing," chuckled her mother, LaVerne.
The two actually high-fived. Pumpkin couldn't imagine another mother approving of, let alone encouraging, her
