Wapun Meadow it isn't about the stuff

She didn't physically attack him; only ridiculed him. This wasn't exactly unfamiliar territory for Charles, and he knew how to play this game. It was easy enough to fall in line. This was just like at home with mother, after all. She might even tell him the San the same thing when he'd come home after this.

After she finished ranting at him about how disgusting and scared he was he looked her straight in the eye and said, It isn't because of the fish. It's because you're a total bitch and I'm not gonna do what you say anymore. Again it felt as though all the air was sucked from his lungs and Charles stared at her, holding his breath, and waiting to see what she would do or say next.