You're On Fire Pt 4

The tires catch and the rental truck lurches forward; she cried when your father told her she had to drive it, and he just laughed when she said why can’t she drive the Mustang. Everybody was saying they were fools for moving right now when the river was flooding but your father said that piece of shit David Kittridge was gone a month ago and that’s waiting long enough for anybody. I earned it, your father said, the promotion and the fucking house, and your mom said I know you did, I know you did, you’re right, you’re right, in that soft voice that makes her sound retarded and makes you want to throw up.