Chapter 14
Thirteen Years Earlier
Scooter loathed summers more than anything else. All his friends were out surfing or skating or getting into trouble, but not Scooter.
Scooter had a job. It was a boring job and he barely got paid for it, less than two dollars an hour, and that was ridiculous because the two waitresses were supposed to share tips with the busboy (that would be him), but they didn’t whenever they thought Scooter’s mom wouldn’t notice, which was most of the time. About once a week, Dottie made a show of handing her tips over and Scooter just had to f*****g eat it the rest of the time.
Jason helped, sometimes, but Scooter wasn’t comfortable with that for any number of reasons. Not the least of which was that Jason kept jumping in whenever anyone took it in their heads to
