Page 35 (1/2)

Chapter 1

BRIN

No, no, no, no! Not today! I'm so sick of this!

He has his side of the street, and I have mine All he has to do is park on his side of the damn street

Our subdivision doesn’t allow driveways—a stupid rule that I don't understand—but the streets are very wide andEveryone parks directly in front of their house It only ie and I park in front of our house

But this jerk, for some reason, refuses to park his car on his side of the road—in front of his house

The end of the cul-de-sac has a faers, so they take up the entire arch for parking Maggie and I already have to squeeze in I have to park close to her so that our next-door neighbors have plenty of parking room in front of their smaller house The jerk across the road has a wide open space directly in front of his large house, but he's a dick

Every night he gets here after oes to work for his twelve hour shift He takes his spot and parks right on an comes back and needs room I could park across the street—in his spot—but that would be ad defeat And I refuse to be defeated

Today he has really screwed up

I' forward nu If he insists on parking on our side of the street, the least he could do is leave a respectable gap It's a common courtesy Apparently he’d rather piss us off as opposed to pissing Mr Morgan off

I have to work His lazy ass sleeps half the day He revs his engine at all hours—when he leaves and gets back He doesn't show the slightest ounce of concern for anyone else Enough is enough, and I've had e-fucking-nough

Before I loseon the door A gentle rap ht now This bastard loves blocking , dammit

Silence

I aluts, and I pound on the door again, longer this ti spewed as so into walls and crashing into things