It was terribly discouraging to Betty when she found out from Dewey that he didn't want a graduation party. He was more concern getting moved in with Angie, down in the basement.
Betty fretted and fumed for the longest time watching the two struggle to get his regular sized bed down the stairs. Ed finally told him it wouldn't do, but he would help. Didn't he know there was a regular sized bed in the basement? He's moved it next to the furnace room.
Betty hated to say she didn't like it, but Dewey did graduate and he did play to go to college in the fall. Something about landscaping. Finally, after lunch when everything was settling, she told Dewey that he had to go on this trip to Altoona with them.
"But why?" He was tired and ate up all the cold cuts. She wasn't sure anyone got lunch but him.
"Because you wouldn't have a party." She knew he didn't work. She looked over to Angie who was actually in a sweat at the kitchen table. "You two can have your own room at the hotel." There, she excepted them as a grownup couple even if they were barely out of high school.
Dewey didn't say no, so she guessed they were going.
"Who's gonna watch the house then?" He asked, know her friend Doris would go on the road trip.
"I dunno, I guess Omaha could look in on the place." She shrugged.
He sighed as if this would be no fun, even if he and Angie got their own hotel room. But she knew that look of his, she'd looked at him the same way, many times. They'd find a way to suffice.
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