Wow, nothing like baby brothers to teach you about child rearing.
My brothers are 16, 15, and 12. It's funny, from the moment he was born we've always known it would be the middle one, Josh, who would get into trouble. Sure enough, he's the one that's really popular, athletic, etc. He makes excellent grades, he's a social butterfly, the girls all love him and the guys do too, and his teachers think he's the shit. He just scored in the seventeenth percentile of all French students in the USA - nationwide, and he lives in Tennessee, and it was his freshman year. He's a good kid but he's too popular for his own good.
I was never popular in high school, and neither are my other brothers. It's just this one. So last week my mom took all three of my brothers to spend the summer with her in Vermont. She's working as a nurse for two months, and my two older brothers have applied for jobs at Putt-Putt, and my baby brother is supposed to catch up on his reading. (My stepfather is keeping up the house and working back in TN.)
So Josh snuck out this week and skipped the country while Mom was at work and our other brothers were sleeping. He met some girl his second day in Vermont, and spent the entire night across the border in Canada drinking beer. He's fifteen. He didn't know anyone else at the party and he totally got away with it. He told me what he was up to but implored me not to tell Mom.
I don't want to tell Mom because she's very strict and she'd tear him to shreds. But I don't want him to think it's cool to skip the country to get drunk, either. Do I rat him out or what?


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That's a great way of putting it. She'd scream and shriek and ground him, but she wouldn't do much else, and the only thing that would come of it would be his realization that he can't tell me anything.

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