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“You haven’t seen them since you walked out, right?”
“For the most part.”
“What does that mean?” Tria pressed.
“I haven’t spoken to them since then,” I said. “I did see my dad once, but I didn’t talk to him.”
“What happened?”
I let out a long sigh.
“Can I get some damn potatoes and bean balls first?”
“Will you tell me then?”
“Fine.”
Tria pushed the bowl over to me, and I made sure I took a really healthy portion. They tasted so damn good, and I wanted to make sure I got as much as I wanted. It would be fucking salads and shit tomorrow to make up for it.
“Well?” Tria prompted as I shoved a bite into my mouth.
“You can’t starve me and expect me to be able to have a deep conversation,” I informed her as I pointed my fork in her direction.
“That’s your second helping,” she reminded me.
“Oh yeah. Well, I was really hungry.”
Tria crossed her arms over her chest, leaned back in her chair, and glared at me. It was pretty obvious that I wasn’t going to be getting out of this, so I rolled my eyes and started talking.
“It wasn’t a big deal,” I lied. “I had been clean for about a month when Ryan tracked me down. He wasn’t supposed to tell anyone where I was, but he told Amanda, and she told the whole fucking family. I swear she thinks by getting into their good graces she’s going to get some huge fucking inheritance or something.”
“So what happened?”
“It’s pretty straightforward,” I said. “Ryan brought Dad here. I took one look at him, punched Ryan, and walked out. That was the end of it. I didn’t even find out until later that Amanda was involved.”
“Your father came here?”
“Just that once,” I said.
“You didn’t talk to him?”
“Nope.”
“Liam!” Tria raised both hands up into the air and then brought them down hard on the table. “He wanted to talk to you! Why else would he have come here?”
“Don’t, Tria,” I warned. “Just don’t.”
I got up and walked out of the kitchen before I got so pissed off, I would end up running out. Grabbing my smokes off the nightstand, I crawled out onto the fire escape.
“What’s up, crazy bitch?”
Krazy Katie had about nine empty dental floss containers lying around her feet and had constructed a pretty intricate spider web out of the floss itself. There was a huge, tangled mess of white string all over the fire escape, which pretty much made it a fire hazard.
Gotta love the irony.
She didn’t say anything to me, but she kept glancing over at me with a weird little smile.
“You are very loud, you know,” Krazy Katie said as I finished my smoke and started to climb back through the window.
