Chapter 9 - MASON'S APOLOGY
Mason apologized three days later.
Not at dinner.
Not with the whole family watching.
Lauren drove him to Rachel’s apartment.
He stood in the hallway.
Hands in pockets.
Eyes down.
“I’m sorry I spit in your food.”
Rachel waited.
Mason looked at his mother.
Lauren said:
“Keep going.”
He sighed.
“I thought it was funny.”
“Why?”
Mason shrugged.
“Dad says you think you’re better than everyone.”
Lauren flinched.
Rachel did not.
“Do you think that?”
Mason looked at her.
“Sometimes.”
Children were brutal because they had not learned how to hide inherited opinions.
Rachel asked:
“Why?”
“You always pay for stuff.”
That answer surprised her.
“So?”
“Then everyone acts weird.”
Lauren closed her eyes.
Rachel looked at her sister.
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This family had taught a twelve-year-old that support was humiliation.
And humiliation was entertainment.
