The Nerd Has A Boner: Extras

Extra 8.0

Oliver's POV

I get home and inside. Sarah didn't have to care for me. Drinking eases everything, the work, having no family, us apart. She has family that is there again. I need to be a man. I lock the door.

It's quiet except Audrey wrapping a gift.

"Hey," I say.

She looks up and shows me the wrapped Christmas gift.

"This is Sarah's."

"What is it?" I ask.

"Scrapbook," she tells me, getting up and placing it by the tree.

"That's cool," I take off my jacket and hang it up. I pass the blinking tree. I take off my shoes before walking up the stairs.

"Oliver, I'm not mad. At you," she says.

"I know," I respond. I trudge through to my room and Mom hasn't talked to me at all. She really must hate her son. Fuck.

I get inside my bedroom and there's cash on my bed. It's not mine and not Audrey's. I pick it up with her coming near. I can't look at her tired expression. It's solemn with her gray hair.

"I left money for you to buy a place besides your dorm. So, you don't have to stay here anymore. Eventually, you'll have to move," I hear her say from near me.

"Am I just cut off now?" I ask upset.

"Oliver, I had cared for you so long. It's not a cut off," her voice is melodramatic. I hear her sniffle and she's knows it's wrong. But, the money is here and I have to take it. I pick it up and shove it in a drawer of my desk.

"Fine."