Vicki Lynn blow dried her long blond tresses and pulled them back into a ponytail. She rushed out of the bathroom attached to her master bedroom in the 877 square foot single wide trailer she shared with her nineteen year-old son, Tyler, and her on-again-off-again fiancΓ©, Lamar. She grabbed the keys to her red 2004 Oldsmobile Alero coupe. She was running late for her afternoon shift as a waitress at Finnegan's. Before darting out the door, she kissed Lamar's forehead.
"Bye baby," replied the twice convicted ex-felon.
When her car pulled away from the mobile home, Lamar put out his Black & Mild in the ashtray on the table tray next to his favorite recliner and walked out the back to feed the dog. When he came back inside, Tyler was pouring a glass of orange juice. "Sup," remarked Lamar.
"Nothing," the slim platinum-haired college freshman replied.
"Let me get a beer," Lamar said indicating that he wanted his future stepson to hand over one of the Bud Lights.
Tyler fulfilled the request and went back to his bedroom where he was surfing the web on his laptop. He studied chemistry at Garth College and was home for his winter break. He despised his background and regarded both sides of his wayward family as poor white trash. He distanced himself completely from it except when he returned to the trailer park on his time off from school. In order to escape this hell hole in the summer, he was working diligently to procure an internship as a counselor at a youth science camp or in a lab researching anything.
Lamar downed his beer quickly and went for another. In the course of 40 minutes, he'd gone through six of them and was now feeling quite hungry and slightly inebriated. He checked the kitchen and found nothing to his satisfaction. So he went to Tyler's room. The door was cracked so he pushed it open. "Hey," he called out. Tyler did not hear him because he was wearing headphones. Lamar walked inside the room and shook the bed to get Tyler's attention.
"What," snapped an annoyed Tyler.
"Damn, I was just tryna see if you wanted to order a pizza."
"Sorry, Lamar. You just startled me."
"It's cool, dude. Just don't make it no habit. You gon' order it online?"
"Yeah, I can do that. What kind do you want?"
"Thick crust. All meat."