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After they got cotton candy, Hale had wanted to play some game where he lifted up ducks that were floating in a stream of filthy water to look at the bottom of them and see if he won a prize (they’d gone direct to a bathroom and washed their hands after that fiasco).
This took quite some time, and two hundred dollars in tickets, because Hale wanted the massive stuffed lion on display.
And by God, right now, that stuffed lion was up in Hale’s room.
So in the end, all in all, they had a good night at the fair and Hale had his toy so he didn’t mind when they left.
It still rattled Corey.
He was about to reach for the phone when it rang.
He had caller ID, and at first, panic shot through him at seeing who was calling.
This was quickly replaced with fury.
He hit the button on the phone and took the call.
“I believe I asked you to stop calling me,” he said into it.
“Well, Mr. High and Mighty, I believe I told you I don’t give a shit,” his father replied. “And I’m done with this horseshit. Your mother and I are coming to California next week. She wants to meet her grandson. And after four years, I think you need to stop being a pantywaist crybaby and let her. It’s unnatural to keep a grandchild from his grandmother.”
“I’m assuming, considering your IQ is four points above Forrest Gump’s, and you live life like you’re still on recess in elementary school, that you think name calling will get you what you want.”
“Christ, you’re such a pussy,” his dad mumbled.
“All right, Dad,” Corey began. “I’m making quite a bit of money now.”
“No shit? You were on the cover ofTimemagazine, for shit’s sake.”
Corey went on like he didn’t speak.
“And I’ve hired someone who has successfully collected the originals of all my medical records.”
His father had nothing to say to that.
Not a surprise.
“So, allow me to explain how this is going to go. You and my mother are never going to see my son. You are never going to speak to him. You are never going to touch him. He is not going to be a part of your life. I’m not either. When I hang up this phone, you do not exist for us. If I hear from you again,TimeorSixty Minutesor Barbara Walters or someone is going to have an exclusive about how I elevated myself from my upbringing by two abusive hillbillies who knocked the crap out of their son from the time he was a toddler. I might even hire a ghostwriter to write a tell-all book. However it comes about, the world will know what monsters you are.”
His father didn’t speak.
Corey did.
“I have to admit, I’d like to do this anyway, considering how deeply you deserve everyone to know you’re trash. But I need to protect my son, so I’ll use this ace to keep him safe. Now, did you understand all those words?”
“That would devastate your mother. She—”
“Do you honestly think I give a fuck?” Corey cut him off to inquire. “You were worse, but she wasn’t much better.”
His father fell silent.
“I need to hear the words,” Corey prompted. “Do you understand me?”
“Yes,” his dad bit off.
“Fantastic. Goodbye then, Dad,” Corey said, then he turned off the portable phone.
He didn’t call Genny.
