THIRTY SIX

"Oh. So you saw through that. Huh?"

"It's disgusting mom. I hate to think what I would've walked in on had I taken ten more minutes to get ready"

"In our defense, we thought we were alone. Your grandmother took your brothers out and you were asleep. But next time we'll lock the door" Alexis heard what she hadn't said. 'We won't stop doing what we want wherever we want to, but we'll lock the doors so no one would walk in on them'

"Thank God I'm moving out"

"So? Who was the boy? Do I know him?"

Don't tell her. She'll overreact. "It was Ray"

"Ray? Which Ray?" her mother asked pretending she didn't know who they were talking about but Alexis could see through that too.

"Don't act like you don't know I'm talking about Raymond Lachlan"

"Our Ray?"

She snapped "He's not ours" He's mine. Shit. Since when?

"Okay. But I thought you two didn't like each other?"

"I thought so too."

"Why kiss him t