Tutoring my Rival Boy novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Home
They sat on the stone bench by the lake, because his mother refused to sit in the dean's office until she had seen it.
She looked at the boathouse for a long time.
The roof sagged at one corner.
The door was held shut with a bent nail.
"Show me inside," she said.
Chris climbed the ladder first and held out his hand.
She came up slowly, one rung at a time, breathing through her teeth.
At the top she stood in the loft and looked at everything.
The rowing mat.
The sleeping bag.
The bucket under the leak.
The boot-shaped stain on the ceiling.
She did not say anything for a while.
"Mom, it's not what it looks like."
"It looks like my son sleeps in a boat shed."
"I had the dorm room. I kept it."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Tutoring my Rival Boy are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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