STEP 5 When all else fails, get help from mom or dad. Don't tattle—just ask for a suggestion on how to get the little twerp out of your hair for a while.
She stepped out of the sunlight and felt that all-too-familiar anxious pang in the pit of her stomach as she remembered how horrible it was to live in her childhood home.
Her tone and manner angered Amy, who began to put her boots on, saying, in her most aggravating way, " I shall go. Meg says I may, and if I pay for myself, Laurie hasn't anything to do with it."
Yet even as Eva recounts evidence of her son's malevolence at a young age, the reader is left with a galling question: would Kevin have fared better if his mother loved him more?