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those illegal? You don’t take star-roids do ya, Sean? They’re bad for you, you know!”
    “Stair-roids, Kathy?! They’re called steroids, for goodness sake!” their father called out from the kitchen, this time sounding as if his mouth was stuffed with everything he could find inside the jam-packed refrigerator.
    “Ma, I don’t take steroids, and for douchebag here’s information, I am getting this degree so that I can be a construction company consultant or on-site contractor. Ya see, different companies would hire me to help them grow their business or I could even be hired by one company, and just assist solely with their marketing needs. I used to work construction jobs part time, remember? It’s a much needed, highly sought after field right now, and I can go to all sorts of places around New York, helping some of these construction firms better market themselves.”
    “So it’s like sales?” His mother winced as if sunlight were suddenly in her green eyes as she picked up her glass of iced tea from the rusty iron TV tray. The thing depicted a bottle of classic Coca Cola being held by a smiling white polar bear.
    “Well, kinda, yeah, but it is about helping them get new clients by putting themselves out there more, ya know? I’d be constantly studying the market and trends in various areas, not just New York, but globally. I’d give them advice on how to promote themselves, hooking them up with advertising firms, social media press, email lists, things like that.”
    “You’d be good at that… ‘cause you’re good at bullshittin’.” Colin burst out laughing, causing Sean to lunge at him with both fists. The two tumbled to and fro, the play wrestling match making a mess of the woolen pillows embroidered with inspirational words such as ‘ Happiness ’. They kept on knocking each other about like pins in a bowling alley.
    “No cussin’ in front of your mother!” their father hollered out once again, this time it sounding as if his throat were full of thick phlegm.
    “Well, that sounds real good, Sean. I’m proud of you,” she stated sincerely, her slight chin bobbing against her chest as she nodded in approval. He slowed a bit and released Colin from his carefully crafted headlock.
    “Thanks, Ma.”
    “Don’t you have another kickboxing match coming up?” his brother inquired, running a hand along his reddened neck and swiping wayward blond strands away from his face.
    “Yeah,” Sean reached over the glossy ashtray full of crinkled cigarette butts left from his father earlier in the day, and gripped his can of beer. He took a hearty swig then set it back down after smacking his lips a time or two. “I haven’t had much time to train lately though…been so busy with work, and everything.”
    “You dating anyone, Sean?” his mother asked. Her sparkling eyes glistened and looked so much like his own. She looked so full of hope and promise, as if twinkling pink angel wings flapped in the irises while glittery fairy dust fell from her dark brown lashes and coated the world in golden kisses.
    “Not right now, Ma,” he said under his breath, loathing the topic that seemed to rule the older woman’s mind from the moment she got up from her frilly, Queen-sized bed and said her morning prayers, until the second she clonked out on a soft, feather down pillow, snoring up a damn storm.
    “Sean, Colin’s got uh girlfriend, why don’t you?” she asked sadly, dropping her head a bit as if his relationship status was worthy of a sullen violin music laden scene. “I want grandkids, ya know? With no girlfriend, there is no wife, and no wife means no grandkids. Your dad and I aren’t gettin’ any younger.”
    Not this shit again…
    “Ma, I hate to break it to you, but Sean is gay.” Colin cackled, causing Sean to push him as hard as he could until the bastard fell off the damn couch, still laughing himself silly despite bumping his big head on the coffee table during his clumsy tumble on