Max heads down the hall of the single wide looking for his parents.
There sitting in a way too small 3xl wife beater is his dad with a beer in his hand at breakfast and his mom in a thread bare pink robe cooking up breakfast.
His mom looks in at him and says looks like lazy bones has gotten up. That is when Max notices that she is missing most of her front teeth which are sitting in a glass on the counter.
Hey bubba, Max's dad says to him, shouldn't you be at school before that counselor lady comes bitchin' at us again.
I'll get there, Max says.
Now baby he can't head off to school without a good breakfast.
She sets down a stack of pancakes as tall as his head and a plate of bacon and eggs in front of Max and says now let me get your dad's breakfast ready.
Max looks at the stack and then looks at his dad and he sees his future and digs into breakfast.
Disability check come in today? Max asks his dad as he finishes breakfast and heads out the door.
Sure hope so.
Max's dad has been on disability for years and the bigger he gets the less likely it is that he will ever get off disability.
Max notices the breakfast sitting heavy in his gut and heads off to school.