Wednesday 21 September 2011

Chapter 2: Ethan Forced

Chapter 2 Ethan Forced
...A dark chapter... Ethan sat in the arm chair and looked relaxed and unfazed by the police taking him home.  As Ethan was very mature for his age, and with James' plumbing business taking off we spent time together but we were a busy unit.  Ethan was good at school, so we had no need to play the heavy handed guardians.  It was unexpected, and I think I just imagined it was some stupid prank and he got caught out!  I was so wrong.
Ethan coughed and then spoke.  "So in two months I'm 18 so if you guys want I will just leave its no sweat.  I been alone all my life mostly so don't freak it will not be hard for me to do it.  Don't get me wrong I am loving the creature comforts you guys offer, but its not biggie for me to walk." 
I thought I should perhaps re-sure him that we was welcome for the rest of his life.  We were not going to ever do that to him. James spoke out, "what ever you did, we really have done a lot worse, in fact if you done worse we probably will be impressed you could get away from it!"  I was so happy James had said that.
Ethan looked at us.  "I am gay."  James smirked at him.  "Perhaps you are, you have plenty of time to find out and experiment".

Ethan held the bottle, now empty, in his lap.  I leaned forward and passed him my full bottle.  Both James and I had never encouraged Ethan to drink, but we never stopped him.  We did not want him to become a stranger to drink.  The first few times we let him drink he of course went crazy.  But since then he became sensible and we imagined that would follow him when he was out too.  It seemed to be working.  Ethan took the drink and gulped down several mouth fulls.  

Monday 12 September 2011

Good Just Got Better

The follow up book to as Good as it Gets is the Good Just Got better.... more info soon.