the times are a changing

What had Betty started? It was a miserable thought that she might get into some sort of trouble, but who would know and who would tell? Maybe it wasn't that big a deal that Angie moved in.

She'd had a falling out with her brother. She didn't want to move to Chicago with him and his family. Lord knows, she wasn't going to live with her mother in Ohio. Angie was a cashier at the Mega Mart now. She and Dewey would be graduating in high school in a few weeks and planned on finding a place of their own.

It was only temporary and Ed didn't make a fuss about moving in with Betty. Still, the basement was practically pink now. And what had that girl done to her baby boy's hair? Yes, in Betty's eyes Dewey was still her baby, but her baby didn't need her anymore. He had Angie.

She didn't have Doris to discuss this with, and Ed told her, those two moving in together was going to happen one way or another.

"We might as well help them," he said. Still, Betty felt it was a sin. That would have never happened when she was a girl. Not where she lived. It was an uneasy feeling. She wanted to help them, but she felt guilty, somehow.

"If you two can stand it," she finally told Dewey. "You can move into the basement with Angie when you two graduate." She wanted him to save money. After all, she did want them both to go to college. Dewey got on at City in the parks department. It was a temporary job that could become permanent. He mainly would be mowing on a riding lawn mower.

And to think at one time, he could have gotten a football scholarship, but now he didn't want to play football. She was mad and thankful at the same time.

She wanted him to be somebody, yet he was human and had to survive like everyone else.