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Chapter 3 Leah Crosby woke up on Sunday feeling better about herself. Not being as down as she was the last couple of days and beating herself up did not stop the woman from spending some time in bed pondering why she doubted her Ron. The mother and son had a close relationship so it could not have been that she mistrusted him. Her belief in the lie about him was not about him being socially inept. People saw Ron that way, but that perception of him was for he did not let being liked interfere with him following his principles. Not being able to find the reason made Leah lose confidence in her parenting. How could she be a good mother when her mind was made up before her son had a chance to defend himself? Then to go with such an unorthodox and humiliating punishment for her friend suggested it. Having her son dressed as a girl in public's main result was to cause him pain. Punishments were meant to be learning experiences, a byproduct would be pain. What she did was revenge. Leah would not get to the root of why she took the wrong side by just thinking about it for a bit. One of the reasons she acted out of character was ingrained in society,- all males were only concerned with sex and they were always not strong enough to not act on that desire. Males were impulsive creatures when it came to carnal pleasures and she believed her son conceded to his primal urges. Another reason was she automatically believed every woman when it came to sexual assaults charges. This was from society's attitude about most sexual assault. It was just men being men, doing catcalls to women is more like those males were boys being boys and treating other people like objects. It was how people treated statements like she should not have been wearing that dress orbeen that drunk as a legitimate defense of those vile actions. As his mom was lying in bed Ron came in her room with their serving tray table. It had her breakfast of soft egg, buttered whole wheat toast, orange slices and coffee on it.This Sunday morning tradition put a smile on her face. Ron has been serving his mom breakfast in bed since her ex, Mario Crosby, left her. Ron knew how hard being a single mom was and wanted to help his mom rest on Sunday. Her son being so thoughtful put a smile on her face, but she was cringing inside. All she could think of was all the little things Ron did around the house without being asked and how did she repay him being a good son? By not believing him. It ate at her that all she could do in the short term was say sorry. "My baby boy, I am sorry. I should have believed you." Ron hated to see his mom stressed out over the past. "Mom, I know you are sorry. It is the past and we are working on making it right. I brought you breakfast so you can relax, so don't worry about it." "I have to, I am your mom." "No mom, you have to be the best mom I can have and you being stuck in the past will not help. I am going to get going over to Mac's. We are starting a new D&D group and I need to role up a new character up." ************* Sylvia Webster could not gather the strength or motivation to get out of bed. She hoped that if she could sleep through the fallout of what happened to Ron at the mall on Friday. Even with her mom doing as much damage control as a spokesperson of Coke when they launched New Coke, she knew this was not going to turn out good for her. Her best friend, Ellen Dawson, happened to hear her bathroom confessional. Vi was actually looking forward to some of the shunning which would come from her being the girl who cried wolf. She enjoyed being in the in crowd but hated paying the price for it. It would be nice not to have the pressure of being cool and doing the in thing all of the time. The big downside of losing her status was she knew her friendship with Ellen was at best strained and most likely no more. El knew the truth. As the girl was laying in bed lamenting her future, her loving father, Mike Webster, opened the door to look in on his pride and joy. Seeing his little girl so helpless made Mike feel so helpless. Vi was in pain and the caring father could not think of anything to do to take it away. Mike quietly closed the door to give his daughter the space she needed right now. ************* Seamus "Mac" MacCabe was Ron's best friend. Those two had been as close as Frick and Frack since they met the first day of kindergarten. Those two also complemented each other like peanut butter and jelly. Lastly they were as dependable to each other as gravity. Ron had a feeling it was going to be a good day, one where he did not have to deal with the fallout of wearing a dress in public. Ron did not care about wearing the dress, he was just already getting sick of hearing about it. To him it was old news.He just wanted a little break for he knew tomorrow it was going to be the big topic of conversation. Ron's good feeling about the day was as right as (x+1)2= x2 + 2x+ 1 until the fifth person, Billy Ray Beech, showed up. Billy Ray was as annoying as the next door neighbor in a 1980's sitcom and also had the same social skills as one. As often as he put his foot in his mouth some people thought he had a foot fetish. As soon as Mr Charming opened the basement door he opened his big mouth. "Hey there Ron, I was really hoping you would be wearing that outfit from Friday night. It really shows off your sexy legs." The only thing which was worse than Billy Ray's "good natured" ribbing was his laugh after it. His laugh was backwards, inverted and made the jackass sound like a donkey. Mac, Dave, and Amber did not laugh one bit at the lead balloon which came out of the new arrival's mouth. Mac and Dave figured that maybe if they just ignored their childish friend's lame attempt at humor he would take a hint. Amber shook her head in disapproval. Ron did not acknowledge his friends presence. Billy Ray did not get the hint and really did not like that Ron just ignored him. "Oh come on, it was a joke, Ron. If I knew it was that time of the month for you I would not have said it." Ron still said nothing, he was not going to dignify that comment with a response. Amber, on the other hand, was not going to let the person who was as socially inept as a giant doing the Limbo get away with his crude sexist statement. "Now listen here boy, just drop the bad inconsiderate jokes. We are here to have fun and get along." The boy who was just trying to have fun did not know when to quit. "OK sorry. I did not know that both of the girls are on their periods." Mac had enough. He knew it was hard for Amber to find a good table to play at and was not going to have Billy Ray chase her away. His sense of humor was not right for the situation. "Hey Billy, just leave." Not wanting to be kicked out of yet another gaming group Billy defended his actions. "Mac, I said I was sorry." Mac was not going to waste his breath and time on explaining to Billy Ray that it was no apology."I don't care, I am not in the mood for your childish behavior today. Just go home, make your character and come back next week." Billy Ray wanted to save face. Also he wanted the narrative in his mind to be that he left the group, not got kicked. "If I have to leave for making a harmless joke then I will not be back." The rest of the group was fine with losing Billy Ray at the table. He only came around when they played and most of the time just brought as much chaos to the game as drunken goblins at a music recital. Their silence told Billy Ray they welcomed him to carry out his threat. After the disrupter left, Amber checked on Ron. She liked the boy sitting next to her and did not want him to feel ashamed of what happened. The caring girl also did not want others to use it to put him down. She was as relieved as a person who passed the breathalyzer test after being pulled over when Ron gave her a smile in his response. *********** Keri Webster was getting frustrated with the outcome of her smear campaign on Ron and Leah. Although the court of public opinion was slightly behind her, the verdict was a deadlock. It should easily be that Ron was guilty. This was all because Ellen overheard the truth. In her mind, Ellen and her mom, Wanda, were poking their noses where they did not belong, plus her daughter's supposed best friend was as loyal as a mercenary. Those hashtags, #falseaccusation #bathroomconfessional #thegirlwhocriedwolf, were driving hthe spin doctor crazy. Those people using those hashtags were not even there. How could they know what happened? That was a private conversation and the busybody who eavesdropped had no right to share what they found out. El broke the trust between her and Keri's daughter. Keri's twisted logic made it wrong for people to be against the accuser because it was wrong to be against her. El also broke the in crowd code, - stick together. Ron was not one of the down kids, so it did not matter why Vi was upset with him, so getting revenge was the right thing to do. Vi was making sure the social pecking order stayed in line. The ecology of high school was very fragile and if Ron was not seen as the loser he was, Vi would fall faster in social ranking than the quality of Nicolas Cage's movie choices . It was wrong that El was not looking out for her friend. To Keri, El not being loyal to those close to her made it so it was fine to get that false friend shunned by the cool group. It was so simple to do. Just, mention that El was talking with Vi about joiningTASK, Teenagers Against Substances that Kill. The best way to change a person's opinion of another was to just drop something bad about the intended target subtly in the conversation. It was simple and easy. The best part was others did your work and it was so hard to trace back to you. Some of the popular kids looked down on TASK for they were against the teenage rite of passage of drinking underage. That anti-drug student group was filled with kids the lady behind the curtains viewed as freaks and geeks. They were just normal kids who were more concerned about who they were than how others viewed them. To Keri that was what made them freaks and geeks. How could those kids not want to be popular? ************ Leah was so happy after talking with Wanda Dawson. It was great hearing someone who had faith in her son. Wanda also wanting to get to the bottom of why Leah did such an unorthodox punishment also helped Leah better understand why she went to those extremes. Understanding that the reasoning was because of how society treated sexual harassment did not make her actions better or her feel better about putting her son in a dress. The knowledge did help her learn she needed to hear out all sides before setting her opinion. The time for self pity and feeling sorry for herself was over also. It might be an uphill battle and many people are making the same mistake she did of setting their opinion of what happened before hearing out all the facts. This did not matter. She, was going to be the internet crier of the truth. Leah was never enamored with social media. She, only used it for it was a quick easy way to communicate with others. Going back on after a day of a self imposed exile made her understand better why she never liked social media as much as she should. Social media was better on paper than in real life. First there were the attacks on her and her baby boy. The people who believed Keri attacked Leah for raising a monster. The people who believed the truth attacked her for the degrading punishment she gave her son. The people who really did not care one way or another attacked her for making clothes into a punishment. They could not believe that someone would help foster the notion it was bad for someone to wear something which they wanted. The momma bear protecting her cub made sure to state the truth again.She pointed out her son was on the other side of town on the night he was supposed to have looked up Vi's skirt. The lady then pointed out that Vi admitted nothing happened and Vi's best friend corroborated that her son did no such thing. All the loving mother could do was explain her side of the story. If people would be as closed minded as a climate change denier there would never be enough explaining to them. Many of them did not care about the facts, they were using their emotions to make their opinion. Their deeply held beliefs about how bad sexual harassment was clouded them from being as open as the culture at a hippie commune. Having a villain to aim their disgust at helped them feel sanctimonious. The personal attacks for the latter reasons were no concern to the lady who was trying to keep the wolves at bay from her son. In a way she felt they were justified and agreed with them. Her actions were as stupid and wrong as a keynote speech given at a Flat Earth society convention. Her admission quickly quieted their grievances against her and many of those people now aimed at being keyboard warriors against Keri and Vi. ********** Mike Webster was not the type of person who could just sit behind a computer screen when he saw a wrong which needed to be corrected. His daughter's vibrant personality was wilting right before his eyes and Vi was becoming a wallflower. Vi was becoming just like a shrinking violet, once colorfully vibrant and by outside forces now dull and listless. The man who needed to do something was not going to try to get Sylvia to open up. She needed space. His daughter must feel so betrayed by her best friend. For some reason Ellen believed that pervert Ron instead of the sweet girl who was attacked. Not being part of social media made it so the luddite did not know El knew Ron was innocent. Mike left the house to go for a jog. He would explode without finding an outlet for all his stored up volatile energy. The man who had too much on his mind thought that jogging outside instead of going to the gym would help take what was bothering him off his mind. Going into the zone and getting the runner's high only moved the issues to his subconscious. Mike's route made him end in the Crosby's neighborhood. As he made a left onto Mellon Ave he saw that damned Crosby boy walking home. Just seeing that boy made his volatile energy become more unstable. He picked up his pace to catch up to Ron. Mike was going to make sure that boy knew never to even think of touching his daughter again. As the man who was going to set a punk straight got closer to his target he started to yell out his name. Ron heard Mr Webster and was not going to acknowledge him. Then Mike ordered Ron to stop,. Ron paid no heed to the command. Vi's dad never once talked with Ron. Every, time they interacted it was Mr Webster talking to the boy not with him and he was not in the mood for that right now.. Mike was more frustrated that the boy was ignoring him and caught up with the disrespectful youth. "Listen here Ronald I want to talk with you. If I call you boy, you listen. If I tell you to stop you stop. Understand." Ron was not going to get into a verbal confrontation with this man so he kept on walking and said "I do not need to listen to you Mr Webster." Ron made sure he gave this man more respect than he deserved. This was for the true adult in this conversation understood that Mr Webster believed his lying wife and daughter. Just because Rom empathized with the protective dad did not mean he would humor Mr Webster in allowing himself to be chastised in public. Mike saw Ron walking away from him as totally unacceptable. He sprinted to get in front of the boy who was running away from his actions. "I told you Ronald I want to talk with you." "Well, Mr Webster I do not want to talk with you so I am going to get going." Ron went to walk away and Mr Webster got in his way. "You will listen to me. If you ever touch my daughter again, you will be sorry, understand?" While saying understand the man pushed his finger into Ron's chest. Ron was sick of people accusing him of doing something he did not do. He was also sick of people talking down to him. "Mr Webster. I never touched your daughter and will never want to touch her. I am sorry that I know that liar." Ron telling the truth to the man who did not know it finally made all that unstable energy in him explode. The man protecting the honor of his dishonorable daughter punched Ron. The punch was like a gavel pronouncing the guilt of the boy laying at his feet.. Mike then kicked Ron while he was down. As his foot connected to Ron's solar plexus Will Rust rushed from working on his garden to stop the unprovoked attack. The boy who was physically and mentally down used the distraction to scamper to his feet and hightail it out of there. He had true fear, those blows were not for justice for Vi but for revenge for an action which did not happen. As he ran into his house, Leah saw her son's newly blackened eye. After hearing about the assault she called the cops. All the officers in that small town's police force went to Barney Fife's police academy instead of the more acclaimed one run by Barney Miller. They knew the gossip of the town and all were on Team Vi. They told the lady who was reporting a crime if she did not raise a pervert maybe he would not have been hit. Finally she got them to file a report and the investigation was over before they even started to write out her complaint. The official report would be her son pushed Mike out of his way and Mr Webster was scared that the boy might harm him so it was self defense. They did go by the book and went to the alleged attacker to get his version of the story. Mike proved once again he was a dummy for he allowed the police to be ventriloquists by parroting their words back to them. ******** Vi's phone was ringing more often than the weather changes in England. She would look to see who called and then just let the call go to voicemail. She did not want to hear from any of the people who called. Even if the girl who wanted to be left alone wanted to answer, Vi knew she did not want to hear the messages. They would be people telling her how courageous she was in confronting the boy who lifted up her skirt. Those lies would just remind her how much of a coward she really was. Then checking the phone the girl who was feeling alone saw the only person who truly understood her was calling. Her best friend Ellen was on the other line and the depressed girl knew Ellen would be a bright ray of light in the darkness which was this weekend. Ellen would understand why Vi has not yet told others the truth. Her BFF knew how overbearing her mom could be. The call had to be about the drama over the lie was weaning away. She quickly picked up the phone and with newfound life in her voice quickly said, "Hey there El." All Vi wanted to hear was this too would pass. In no way did the girl who wanted this chapter of her life to be over want to hear she needed to end it herself. She most definitely did not want to hear how the story was progressing. Once she heard how the plot was advancing she would want the editors to decline the publishing options so the story would not advance. "Sylvia, you need to tell your dad and everyone the truth now." "People will forget about Ron in a dress and why in a couple of weeks, it is no big deal." "It is a big deal, your dad went after Ron." "My dad yelling at Ron is not that bad." "He did more than yell at him, he hit him. The cops are not going to press charges." "Oh good." "No, not good. Bad. Ron was physically attacked by your dad. The only reason your dad did not do more damage was he was stopped." "I did not mean good Ron was hit. It is good that my dad is not in trouble." "Well, he should be and who knows your dad might assault Ron again. Your dad had no right to hit him." "Well, my dad thought he hiked my skirt up." "But he did not and why did you tell your mom that lie?" "I did not." "Oh come on!" "My mom jumped to that conclusion when I told her I was crying over Ron blowing me off." "You should have corrected her." "I did not want to hear her get on me about letting a boy get to me." "Well, she is now." "My mom is not, she is too worried about making sure people believe us." "Well, you need to stop her for it is wrong." "I can't!" "No, it is you wouldn't. I am going to get going." "Hold on I really need someone to talk with now. You are my best friend and I need you." "That is why I called, you needed me and I gave you help. I told you what needs to be done. You need to fix this. You need to stand up to your mom, you need to tell your dad the truth. Bye." Vi knew it was useless to beg for El to stay on the phone. Her friend was there for the girl who needed help but was refusing it. Vi understood El not wanting to talk with her, for Vi did not want to talk to herself. She gathered all the energy she had to go downstairs. It was time to listen to her friend and do the right thing. Too often in life Sylvia did the easy thing instead of the right thing. She could not do that right now. Ron did not deserve any of what was happening to him. How could she permit a person she professed to have feelings for to have to deal with everything. Her weak efforts before Ron had to put on a dress was just window dressing to make herself feel good. Her dad was ecstatic to see that his little princess finally had started the return journey back from her self imposed exile. Vi sat next to him. "Dad we need to talk. It is about what Ron did." Swelling with pride the father said, "No need to worry about that creep ever touching you again." "You should nothave hit him." Mike got a little mad that his daughter was still trying to defend that boy. "Listen here, sometimes a man has to be physical with someone and this was one of those times. He preyed on someone weaker and now he knows how it feels when that happens to him. He will be too scared to ever harass a woman again." "He did not harass me." Even with not liking his daughter downplaying what happened to her, Mike stayed as cool as Bruce Campbell. "Do not believe him when he said he was just joking around. What he did was very wrong and he deserves everything which is coming to him." Vi on the other hand could not keep her cool. "No dad! Ron did not lift up my skirt!" Mike hated hearing this confessional and lost his cool also. "Why did you lie to your mom and me!" "I did not. I never said that happened. Mom assumed it and went with the story even after she knew the truth." The father knew his daughter lied by omission to him, but she would never straight out lie to him. Even if she would, not now, the price of being caught in the lie would be too severe. The dad would deal with his daughter later, right now he had more important to handle. "Vi go upstairs right now, your mom and I need to talk." Keri was in the basement and did not know the truth which she was trying hard to suppress has reached her husband. As she came back into the living room from her chore she could see Mike was seething. "Hey there, protector of women. You need to let go being mad at Ron. He will never try that with our daughter again.He deserved you hitting him" Mike wanted to give his wife one more chance to come clean. He knew that was as likely as mail being delivered on Sunday. "Try what?" "Treating women like objects." Keri knew something was wrong, very wrong when her husband started to shake his head no. "Come on do not believe those people who are saying otherwise. They are just trying to defend that predator's actions for they concurred withwhat he did." "She told me it did not happen. How could you do this?" Keri hated that her daughter was weak. Vi always needed to be pushed by Keri to do what was best. Keeping her mouth shut was what was best. Her daughter needed to have faith in her mom to be able to clean up the little messes their little white lie were making. To Keri, blaming Ron for something he was innocent of was not harmful to anything she wanted so it was a white lie. Now she was going to downplay her not telling the truth again "Yeah, so what. I told you I had this handled. If you listened to me you would not be in the mess you are in." Mike was shocked that his wife was trying to blame him for hitting Ron. He was provoked by a lie and then that kid not respecting him. If he knew the truth he would never have hit him. What made it worse was somehow she was trying to say he was in trouble of his own causing. He asked what mess? Keri's answer was, "You hit a minor and then you lied to the police about what happened." "I thought Ron deserved it." "Well, he did. That punk did not listen to you. Back when we were young, our parents would have thanked another adult for disciplining their child. You did nothing wrong. Don't worry about it and let me handle these things from now on." Keri's words were as skillful in easing the fear from her audience as those from a populist politician. Those words were also as useful as a populist politician. They did not offer any solution to the situation or deal with the deeper issue at hand.All her statement did was make her husband feel better about his actions. ************* If asked, Wendy Staal would call herself a procrastinator if she ever got around to answering the question, so it was no big deal that her lab partner, Amber Hrdina, was running late for their study session. To her their meeting was nothing and could be done later. It was just writing up their lab from last week. The report was not due until Tuesday so they had tomorrow to get it done. Wendy knew why Amber was late, the D&D session ran late. The lady in waiting knew no matter the end time of the session it would always run late. While watching some videos on Youtube Wendy did think that one day she has to go to one of those sessions, Amber made it sound fun. The lady who wanted to try something new would inquire if the invite to play was still open. Amber showed up happy. She would have been a little irked about having Wendy as her lab partner if that girl was not as smart as hitting your funny bone. The girl going into her friend's bedroom could understand why Wendy felt no pressure to get anything done for all her classes just came so easy to her. It was a little charming that Amber's lab partner could not understand that she was a genius. Wendy thought everything came as easy to others as it did to her. Most of her fellow classmates and teachers misunderstood her like the general population did with the scientific meaning of word theory. Not Amber, she was of the few people who did not misunderstand the girl who undersold herself.. Before the two girls started to look at the data from their experiment Wendy, in a serious voice, asked a question to get what she determined would be the most important finding of their time together, "Who all plays D&D with you and is that invite still open. "Well, it is Mac, Dave Kennedy, Billy Ray Beech and Ron." "Ron Crosby?" "Yes who else?" Before Friday night Wendy's biggest objection to playing with the group would be Billy Ray. She found him as annoying as when her hair scrunchie disappeared when she wanted to use it. Now it was Ron. She thought he was one of the good guys, but it just happened she confused being quiet with being respectful. "Oh, never mind then." "You think he lifted Sylvia's skirt." "Why else would his mom parade him around the mall if he did not." "For Vi's mom is Ron's mom's best friend and she took the word of an adult over that of her own son. You should come over next Sunday, you will have fun." "Nah." Amber knew that Wendy was declining the offer because she still believed that Ron did what he has been falsely accused of. She knew that Wendy's mind was as made up as the beds in a military barracks so she was not going to waste her breath on defending Ron. The girl who lost the esteem she held for her lab partner said, "Let's get this finished so I can go home." She knew from now on they would be working on putting together the report via emails. *********** Ron was never in a real fight. The most serious physical confrontation the young man ever had was a couple of pushing matches on the elementary school playground. Even when he was in those Ron knew that they would never escalate to anything serious. There were too many teachers around to stop the fight before it began and the kids who started them were jockeying for position in the social standing. That was the only reason Ron played along, he knew if he pushed back, later on he would be left alone if he caused no trouble. His swollen left eye and the bruise on his stomach made the boy expand his thoughts on fighting. He was going to try to stay a pacifist. The dove now knew that in theory it was noble to never want to strike another person, but in reality one has to defend oneself when attacked. This saddens the peacemonger for he knew that if he hurt someone else it will hinder him on being who he was meant to be. Leah was giving her son room, she knew he needed it. Two of his beliefs were destroyed this weekend. First, that his mom would always have his back was made to be as true as Santa Claus and now, that most people only resort to violence when threatened was as real as the Easter Bunny. Vi's dad was a level headed person and him hitting Ron made the boy see that the world is not as nice as he thought. The loving mom knew that Ron had enough to deal with, having to leave another part of his childhood behind. The boy who was becoming a man needed to also learn to carry on whe n yet another myth which made his world was proven false. She did wonder if the tooth fairy of believing-that-people- dated-other-people-for-how-well-they-meshed would be the next childhood truth to be gone, as Leah knocked on her son's door As Leah entered the room she saw her son's black eye and to her it also represented the black eye her actions put on their relationship. She might not have thrown the punch but she helped throw into action the events which led to the shiner. She asked Ron the question she already knew the answer to. In a voice, as downtrodden as an old beast of burden, Ron's reply to are you alright was no, mother. She knew it was worse than she expected. Leah knew that when her son would say mother, that was how he addressed her when he was upset. But she thought Ron's voice would have as much venom in it as the tentacles of a Portuguese man o war. Instead it was as strong as jelly. The mom who wanted to make it better almost started to give the tired platitude of saying I am sorry. The only thing saying sorry would accomplish would be making her feel better. Instead she gave her son what she hoped came off as words of encouragement and advice. "Ron you have the right to feel anger towards me and all those people who think you lifted Sylvia's skirt. You are also right in thinking for a little while life is going to be hard. You also have the right to think it is not fair. You do not have the right to feel sorry for yourself about the situation you find yourself in if you want to get out of it. Don't sulk in your room feeling sorry for yourself. Don't give up just for a bully hit you, you were handling this so well. I am proud of you for doing so and know you can still stand up for yourself. So be mad at me and show it, I deserve it. You need to express it but don't forget that you love me and I love you. Also don't forget that I am going to be on your side from now on. You had to pay a huge price for me to learn to trust you. Be mad at Sylvia and show it. Make sure each time someone thinks of her the first thought will be the lie she spread about you. Make sure that she pays dearly for trying to get away with this. Do it for it is the right thing to do." "Mom, I am mad at you right now. I hate that you did not even think of how putting me in a dress would affect me. You thought I would do something as low as look up a girls skirt! That hurts more than the punch. That fact hit me hard when Mr Webster hit me. Him hitting me did not take my resolve away you did. But don't take me being alone in my room as me giving up. I am not, you raised me better than that. I need to stand up for myself and will. I need to regroup by myself." Leah went downstairs to the living room and to allow the temporary hermit to return to his friend, solitude. After conversing with his companion Ron came down stairs. He was still a little low but his mom could tell his spirits were raising. He hugged his mom and told her he was sorry and he loved her. The lady who was feeling the loving embrace of her child asked why Ron was apologizing. When Ron gave the answer of being mad at her she felt as small as a Trivial Pursuit pie piece. Instead of wallowing in self-pity the mom did some real tough love. "Ron you have the right to be mad at me. I did you wrong. I played a part in a person's sick plan to humiliate you. We are making amends for what I did. Life is not a sitcom so it is going to be bumpy and you will feel anger at me. If you hold it in and I do not become a better mom the anger will become resentment. I do not want you to feel that way towards me." Her words were tough love because she had to come clean on her transgression. She had to admit she knew and understood why her son was mad about what she did. If not Ron could see her actions as just trying to make him feel better instead of fixing the issue at hand. Leah coming clean helped Ron. Those words helped him see that he was not mad at his mom. He was mad at her actions and disappointed in her. Sounding even stronger Ron said, "Mom, it is your actions which I am mad at and we will get back to where we were as mother and son." ********* The effects of Keri's soothing words were wearing off on Mike Webster. It felt wrong that he was not going to acknowledge hitting Ron. The worst part was until his wife told him the lie he liked that boy. Ron would just listen to Mike as he gave him fatherly advice. To try to make himself feel better the father decided tonight supper would be delivery. Yes a nice meatball hoagie from Trottier's, his favorite pizza joint, would do the trick. He called to make his order and Mario Trottier answered the phone. The order went normally until Mike gave his address, Mario knew that was Vi's house from dropping her off so often. "Sorry Mr Webster we do not deliver to that address anymore." Mike wondered how modern day Nostradamus knew his name, but did not ask. Instead there was a more pressing concern which he to cover. "When did you stop delivery to my neighborhood?" "Oh we deliver to your neighborhood. I should have been clearer. We do not deliver to your house anymore." Mike cursed to himself some of the neighborhood punks must have made prank orders to the Trottier's and used his address. "That is fine just make it a take away order." "I cannot take your order. Your wife does not do business with places where one of our employees work." Mike cursed to himself again, his wife went overboard complaining about the service again, Keri could be such a drama queen and always used the threat of a personal boycott to try to get her way. "You know my wife she can be over the top. Her saying that was just blowing off some steam. I will be down there in about an half hour." "Don't come down. Your wife got Ron Crosby fired from his old job. We do not want her to try to bully us into firing Ron also." Mike cursed to himself for the third time, his wife went too far. "Sorry." Mike was stunned that his wife would actually get someone fired over something which she knew as not true. It made him question if his wife was a good person. Could it have been the entire time he was confused by her being nice to him as her being good? The man who was questioning how much of his love for Keri was based on false assumptions knew that those two were going to have it out right now. "Keri we need to talk right now." Keri came running in to see how dare her husband use that tone towards her. Of course she played it cool. If she stayed level headed she could better assess the situation and make Mike know he had no right to talk to her in that manner. With a smile as fake as the stories she spread about Ron the snake-oil saleswoman said, "What do you want dear?" Mike just said, "How Could You?"