Mom worked every Friday night because the tips were good and Dad usually worked late anyway. My mother had a pretty set routine, she would shower and dress early then relax on the couch and watch TV for awhile before making me something quick for supper if I had the night off and leaving something for dad in the oven. It was just as well as I was home two hours before I said I would be and didn’t want to explain why. Mom knew Kelly’s parents well and was aware that neither of them were home on Friday afternoons. Of my parents, mom was the one who was more forward about discussing sex. Then again dad was and always had been a workaholic and Mom pretty much handled everything when it came to me. She knew Friday was Kelly and I’s ‘fool around’ day as she called it, but never embarrassed me by saying anything when I came home. If she saw me home early she would know Kelly and I had fought and that had been happening more and more lately.
