Uncomfortable

Matt was happy to see Amy at the bus stop... but his joy ended when she ignored his greeting. Crap, she was mad. Which made perfect sense. She should be mad considering his behavior the previous day.

"Amy, I'm sorry. I wanted to make my mother happy and I just forgot about everything else."

"Yeah, me too. I wanted to make my mother happy and boy did I do a dynamite job at it. I fixed her up with my boyfriend who, it turns out, didn't want me or her... just his mother and his creepy sister."

"She's not creepy. And she tried to stop me from picking my mom."

"You know, the funny thing I've noticed is, Karen always gets what she wants. If she'd really wanted you to stay with my mom, give her the validation she needed, I think you would have stuck with my mom and given her that validation. Since you didn't, I have a hard time believing that Karen wasn't perfectly okay with keeping your sex drive in the family."

"I want to make it up to you and your mom."

She smiled at him. "Really."

"Absolutely."

"Then keep the fuck away from both of us. That's the one thing you can do that will make me absolutely happy."

"Shit. I am so sorry."

"I guess I wasn't very clear. When I said keep the fuck away from me I actually meant KEEP THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME. Did that help?"

"Yeah, got it. But please don't blame Karen. It really was completely my screwup."

"Oh, fuck off. You can't mess with a girl and then expect her to be okay with it. Saying your sorry doesn't mean shit, it just makes me want to puke. Now either you stop talking to me or, when I get to school I'm going to talk to the principal about how to make you leave me and my mom alone."

Matt nodded. He'd known he was pushing it when he'd picked his mom but he hadn't really thought things through. Worse, Amy knew too much. If she wanted to, she could ruin his life and, worse, his sister and mom's life. Clearly, though, pleading wasn't going to help. Instead he got up and sat on the bench farthest from Amy.