Chapter 21Today, Nathan and I tried to be civil to each other, but that didn’t work very well. I walked on egg shells around him, while he permitted himself to criticize, patronize, and condescend to me to no end. I told him that he was behaving just like his father. He didn’t like that one bit. We spent the rest of the day avoiding each other, until things came to a head.
“You were in there for thirty minutes,” he said, as I stepped out of the washroom.
Lately, I’d been spending a lot of time in the bathroom. I sat on the closed toilet lid and watched the wall. I’d run the faucet or shower to drown out the noise of the TV and sit there thinking.
“What were you doing in there, anyway?” He gave me a little moue of disdain.
I couldn’t help laughing for some reason. What I did in the bloo
