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you.”
    “You’re damn right it does! You have no right to dictate who I can and can’t date. I’m not a little kid.”
    “Yes, I do,” he roared. “I not only have the right, but the obligation, when I know for a fact this guy is gay!”
    Sean started to scan the room in the hopes that his parents hadn’t made it to the doorway, but no such luck. There they stood, their heads poked into the doorway, eyes wide as they watched the fracas.
    “What?” Laura said as her struggles against Louise and Sean ceased. “How can you possibly know that? Some sort of gaydar? Quit trying to run my life!”
    “No, I know because I’ve fucked him before, and he’s fucked me. So did Erik and two other guys. You’ve missed the last six full moon swims, but ask anyone who was at some of the others and they’ll tell you. Why do you think he’s going after you? He knows you don’t know about that and no one has the choads to tell you this dolphin’s queer but your queer brother.”
    The room fell silent. Everyone froze at the sound of Helen Morita clearing her throat in the doorway. “Would anyone like me to make some soup?”
    “For Christ’s sake, Helen, they’re not sick,” Sam scolded. “They don’t need soup. They need a referee. And what the hell is a ‘full moon swim’? And what do you mean by ‘this dolphin’?”
    Sean wasn’t sure exactly how many, but at least four other people besides him and Emery and Louise Nadel audibly said, “Fuck.”

Chapter Six
     
    Sean threw his hands up in defeat and headed for the doorway. “That’s it. Y’all handle it. I’m outta here.” He pushed his way past his parents and the shifters gathered behind them and started to head for the front door. Then he remembered the hurricane bearing down on them and changed course for the door leading out to the garage. He walked out, closed the door behind him, and sat on the step leading down from the doorway.
    “Holy crap.” He dropped his head in his hands. How the hell am I supposed to explain this?
    He’d halfway thought someone, hopefully Emery, would come after him, but no one did. After ten minutes he was about to go back into the house when he heard a scream that sounded a lot like when his mom saw a spider.
    As that sank into his brain, he jumped up and ran inside. His mom and dad, flanked by nearly everyone else, stood just inside the sliding glass doors, clutching each other and staring out at the pool, shock painted on their faces.
    Sean walked closer. The others noticed his approach and parted for him. Out in the pool, Emery was watching them.
    Emery the dolphin.
    Sean did an about-face and returned to the garage before his parents saw him. He didn’t want to deal with this.
    It was Louise Nadel who followed him. She sat next to him on the step without speaking for a couple of minutes.
    He took a deep breath and let it out. “Did Mom faint?”
    “No,” she slowly said. “It was a little iffy there for a few minutes about your father, though. I think he nearly hyperventilated.”
    “Are they okay?”
    She slowly nodded. “I think so. I think they’re still in shock, though. Emery and Joseph are talking to them.”
    “I’m guessing Emery’s out of the pool, then?”
    “Yes.”
    “What the hell am I supposed to say to them?”
    She shrugged. “That’s not my call, Sean.”
    “They’re going to hate Emery now, aren’t they?”
    “I don’t think so.” He wished she wouldn’t speak so slowly. It was starting to annoy him. When he looked at her, he realized she wore a puzzled expression. “She keeps wanting to know if anyone wants soup.”
    When he finally processed her comment, he burst out laughing. “That’s about the only kosher thing she does.” He took a deep breath and let it out. “She’s not close to her family. She left home when she graduated high school. She doesn’t like to talk about them. Dad told me her uncle, her mother’s brother, molested her when she was a kid. When she