One Wild Night
“–Irish proverb In a week, it will all be over.
In a week, the pieces of my family will be scattered like dandelion seeds in a hard wind and there’s not a thing I can do about it.
Deep down, I know that. I know this time the Cooneys are so screwed there will be no sweet-talking our way out of trouble. Still, I keep shifting the bills around on the scarred kitchen counter and punching numbers into my calculator, hoping to find a way to keep the balls in the air and the kids out of the system.
But the state doesn’t care that I’ve been running this family since I was seventeen and doing a pretty good job of it until now. My father’s the legal guardian. All it will take is a hard look in our direction—the kind of hard look that will come when we get kicked out of the house and the kids start going to school smelling like they’re living in a van—and it will become obvious that Chuck is an unfit parent. Before you can say “throw the baby out with the bathwater,” the four underage Cooneys... will be scooped up by the Department of Human Services and trundled off to separate foster homes.MoreLess
In a week, the pieces of my family will be scattered like dandelion seeds in a hard wind and there’s not a thing I can do about it.
Deep down, I know that. I know this time the Cooneys are so screwed there will be no sweet-talking our way out of trouble. Still, I keep shifting the bills around on the scarred kitchen counter and punching numbers into my calculator, hoping to find a way to keep the balls in the air and the kids out of the system.
But the state doesn’t care that I’ve been running this family since I was seventeen and doing a pretty good job of it until now. My father’s the legal guardian. All it will take is a hard look in our direction—the kind of hard look that will come when we get kicked out of the house and the kids start going to school smelling like they’re living in a van—and it will become obvious that Chuck is an unfit parent. Before you can say “throw the baby out with the bathwater,” the four underage Cooneys... will be scooped up by the Department of Human Services and trundled off to separate foster homes.MoreLess
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