#687 Encounters with Unexpected Animals- Bret Anthony Johnston
Lambright’s seventeen year old son is dating a girl two years older. She is a handful and much too much for the boy, or maybe just too much for the parents to handle. Just a few weeks ago the kid was keeping to himself in his childhood bedroom with childish surroundings. Now he has taken down all his boyish posters and model airplanes ready to let this older girl make him an adult. She is certainly a influence over him:
“Two weeks ago, one of his wife’s necklaces disappeared. Last week, a bottle of her nerve pills. Then, over the weekend, he’d caught Robbie and the girl with a flask of whiskey in the backyard.”
Lambright offers to drive her home one night after she stayed for dinner. He uses the trip alone to demand that she leave his son alone. Her reaction is impetuous, dangerous and all the bad things he saw in her; but he didn’t see this coming.
“He was disoriented, short of breath. He knew he was at the beginning of something, though just then he couldn’t say exactly what.”
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