Chapter Sixteen
Coy
July 1988 – Carthage, Texas
Driving home, I decided that I had to give my parents one more shot. I’d never been in an argument with either of them, and it occurred to me that I didn’t know how to argue my point with them. But I had taken a debate class, so I knew how to argue.
As I walked into the house, I tried to make a list of pros that I could think of about me and Lila. There were a lot of them. And the only cons pertained to my family and hers.
My mother sat in her wheelchair alone in the living room, reading a book. She looked up at me with a smile as I came into the room. “There you are. You’ve been so busy this summer. Where’ve you been today?”
For a moment, I wanted to tell her the truth. But even if she didn’t like the idea of me being with Lila, she wo
