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“Did you know him before coming to VCU?”
“Why all these questions about him? What do you care?”
“Why are you getting so defensive?”
“I’m not being bloody defensive.”
“Why did you suddenly speak in a British accent?” I try holding back a laugh.
“I just finished my holiday ritual of watching a few classic James Bond movies in a row.”
“Roger Moore or Sean Connery?”
“Sean Connery, of course.”
Of course.
“So what’s going on, Kennedy?” I return to the topic at hand. “Why does nobody want me to ask about Shane? He seemed nice enough at the rink the other day. Nicer than the other one.”
I pretend not to even remember Neo’s name.
What a joke.
Kennedy sighs heavily, clearly not wanting to discuss it, but my curiosity has been getting the better of me since the festival. I need to know.
“If you must know, and I don’t care who hears me, I don’t like talking about him because Shane’s bitch of a mother is dating my father.”
Well, damn, that’s not where I thought this conversation was going.
“Um, and?”
“And I don’t like it, Violet!”
“Is it serious between them?”
“As a heart attack. They brought me and Shane home to tell us that not only are they serious but they’re engaged. Can you believe that? She is marrying my father and moving into my mother’s house.”
Oh, damn.
“So you and Shane–”
“Will be step siblings if I don’t figure out a way to stop this colossal midlife crisis of my dad’s. He’s making a huge mistake, and he’s so pussy whipped he doesn’t even realize it.”
“How long have they been dating?”
“That’s not the question you should be asking.”
“Okay…what’s the right question?”
“How soon did they start officially dating after my parents’ divorce?”
“That sounds like a trick question.”
“The answer is exactly three weeks and four days after the papers were finalized.”
“Yeah, that’s not long at all.”
“Exactly, which means they must have been seeing each other well before my father strolled inside our kitchen and told my mother on a random summer night that he wanted a divorce. It means that his motheristhe reason for the divorce.”
