章節 26: Chapter 26

His mother gasped and put her hand over her mouth. His dad straightened up, a perplexed look on his face.

“The mistake is that I didn’t do anything. I went to the park looking for Tom. This guy invited me to follow him and I did. He just asked me a few questions. The next thing I knew is he turns out to be a cop and that he was arresting me.”

“You went to Delph, even after I warned you?” his father asked.

Alan nodded again.

“How can you be a…one of those?” his mother went on, apparently not able to say the word. “You’re so handsome. You’ve always had girlfriends, hasn’t he, George?” she said, turning to her husband. Then turning back to Alan, “What about Millicent?”

George glared at his wife with a ‘shut up’ expression on his face.