1.18: The Beginning of Summer
Kirk: Hey Stacy, how are things with your brother Shawn?
Stacy: Bad, yours?
Kirk: Not as bad, still dealing with suddenly being invisible but that’s it.
Stacy: At least your baby brother has an excuse, he’s a baby, he’s cute, he sucks up time and energy and stuff. I have an annoying 11 year old in my house who thinks he’s suppose to rule the house. Everything’s about his needs, him acting out, his adjustment. It’s always Shawn this and Shawn that. I hate that kid.
Kirk: That’s kind of harsh. He is your brother. I mean, I’m a little jealous. I guess it’s a byproduct of being an only child so long, but I certainly don’t hate David or regret that he was born. My parents always did want more kids and they had such a hard go getting just me. Maybe they just settled.
Stacy: Settled for a nearly perfect son who had a pretty perfect life. I don’t think it was THAT much of a struggle for them.
Kirk: I think perfect is going a little far.
Stacy: Come on, your parents have a stable marriage, you’re one of the best students in our year and a brilliant athlete, plus you have the ideal virginal girlfriend, and an adorable new little baby shows up in just enough time to distract them as you bridge into adulthood. Sounds pretty ideal to me. Especially when you measure it against my life with daddy the adulterer and the illegitimate son. I’m not a top student or anything else, but I was always the apple of my father’s eye, it made me special. Now I’m not special anymore.
Kirk: There’s more to you than a messed up family.
Stacy: It doesn’t feel like that.
Kirk: So called perfection, it’s not so great. Some days I’m scared to mess up. My parents wanted me so bad and I always wanted to make them happy they’d waited so long for me. David’s thrown all that in a tailspin I guess, I don’t know my place anymore. Besides, no matter what I do you can’t compete with the perfection of a new baby, a new beginning, another chance. You’re not the only one feeling displaced by sudden siblinghood, no matter how our respective brothers got here.
Ian: Well Deven, our first year of High School is officially over. What do you think?
Deven: Didn’t exactly make it with all my planned accomplishments but it went pretty well. I’m a J.V. basketball player, maybe I’ll be varsity next year. And then the girls will come rolling it.
Ian: Mick did pretty well in that department.
Deven: Yeah, can’t believe he ended up with a girlfriend this year and I didn’t.
Stephany: Maybe if you shaped up you’d get one.
Deven: Steph.
Stephany: Truth be told, and I’ll never repeat this so don’t attempt to get me to, you two are good looking guys. You could have girlfriends easy if you, dear Deven would tone it down and you, dear Ian, would just loosen up a bit.
Deven: And we should take advice from you because? I don’t see you with a boyfriend.
Stephany: Believe me, it’s by choice.
Deven: Yeah, Mick’s choice to date Mie instead.
(Ian chuckles, but tries to hide it)
(Stephany decided to get back at Deven for that comment by dancing with his brother)
