The Reason for Everything

Unaware of it, Tara gloated when Brooke staggered home only forty minutes after she left. The back door slammed off the kitchen wall. Tara was upstairs watching a documentary about a boy who videotaped his truly embarrassing parents. [Click here to read the first episode, or here to read the previous one.] Their house was rickety but Brooke was causing a ruckus. So that while little Chester on TV told his bickering parents, “You guys are golden,” Tara visualized Brooke opening and closing the refrigerator and crashing into furniture. Then Brooke tromped upstairs and stalked noisily in Tara’s vicinity before...