Chapter 50
“Then I met Booger…then you.” He kissed Erika’s cheek, and took her hand away. “Before that, college was off and on. It was tough at first, because Mr. Schwabb’s voice stayed with me. When I told Booger all this, he said Mr. Schwabb probably resented being stuck where he was, or maybe he hated boys because his youth was gone. That or someone treated him like shit once.” Billy added a pretty good British accent. “‘There’s never an excuse, but there’s always a reason. Bullies got bullied. Bullies are broken. That’s psychology.’ The worst part is, Peanut has him this year.”
“Yikes. Maybe he’s nicer now?”
“Naw. People don’t change.”
“That’s psychology?”
“That’s Frozen. Your daughter’s obsessed.”
Erika smiled. This—all of it—was intimacy exactly the way she wanted it.