“That ego of yours needs to get checked, Jed. You’re new to this school, and stealing your cousin’s spot on the football team isn’t something to gloat about.”
“Second,” he mumbles with a mouth full of pizza.
“Excuse me?”
He swallows. “Second cousin.”
I go through the stacks of paperwork all the kids brought home today, annoyed, frustrated, and embarrassed by my own son.
“Can I go down and watch them work?” Posey asks, already sliding away from the table.
“Can we not have takeout tomorrow?” Nikki asks.
“Can I?” Posey asks for the second time, standing at the top of the basement stairs.
“Let me go through your stack first, then you need to ask Hank if it’s okay for you to watch. But you have to stay out of the way.”
She steps down one stair.
“Posey, I said wait until I go through y
