Chapter 24I rushed Dad out of the room and told him to hold Mom off. “Eventually, Jay, she’s going to have to see you. She’s going to want to kiss you goodbye for school, and make your lunch, and drive you to classes because I won’t always be available.”
“Dad. Please. Stop. You’re driving me nuts.”
“You’re going to have to walk past her in the kitchen for breakfast and inhale those delicious smelling chocolate and blueberry pancakes.”
“Not now, Dad. Not if you can help me during these next few hours. I’ll figure something out later.”
“But she’ll know that I knew about it, and like I said, she’ll skin me alive, skewer me limb to limb.”
“Mom may be a lot like Cruella De Vil, mean-spirited and hold many grudges, but I know for a fact that she doesn’t believe in getting her aggression out
