Peaceful Week (part 2)

After sundown, everything turned rather hectic.

We were having dinner, but not the kind of dinner that one might expect to have between their mother and their boyfriend.

No, no, no. It's an interrogation.

Mom is asking us questions about why there's a gun on the floor, and what we were doing with that gun. Nico tried answering them in a way that doesn't reveal the truth, but I know what Mom is like. She can smell lies from miles away, speaking from experience.

Not telling the truth is also a form of lying, and Mom is insane at knowing just which parts of the truth are lacking. She managed to completely dry Nico out of information, and now she knows that Nico brought a gun to school everyday with the intention of fighting demons with it.

I mean... Nico is a little terrible at lying. His answers always one way or the other lead up to the real truth, and Mom always points out anything that is not connecting. So, I ended up helping out.