Chapter 167

• My tossing her phone did not stop the communications. Carol wrote to him every chance she got and Steven had allowed the use of his phone, at least, until Betty asked him to stop promoting such a creepy relationship.
• We continued to argue about it until one day a knock on the door brought that sorry bastard to my door announcing he was going to run away with Carol and start their lives. Carol came out of her room with a suitcase so I knew that this had been planned. I told him to get off my property and not to contact Carol until she was eighteen.
• Carol was adamant that she was going with him until Steven talked some sense into her. I thought we had survived that impasse until late that night I was woken by a large ruckus. I ran into Carol's room in time to see her boyfriend hitting Steven, knocking him down. Steven had caught them trying to sneak out of the house and began fighting him.