Confess That… II 24A

Their lunch came soon enough. And absolutely nothing was said until their dishes were cleared away. "Why?" Beatrice asked in her stern voice.

The boys looked at each other. Sawyer chose to answer. "We got carried away. We were walking and I saw a club. We didn't plan to."

"Yeah. We know the rule and we've always kept it."

"Until now. You didn't call, you didn't answer your phone. And drinking?" She grimaced. "Drinking? You're not old enough. Did you think we wouldn't know?"

"We weren't thinking."

"Sawyer, you should be more responsible."

Of course she said that. Well… he did want to go back but Tom wasn't ready… "I know. It's my fault."

"And Tom." She turned to him. "If he wants to do something you don't want to do, you can't stop him?"

"I-" To lie? To go with her assumption? "I wanted to do it."