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“I’ll say,” Cricket said. “You should have seen him at the first staff meeting.”
“What did I do?” Tucker asked.
“You came on too strong with that ‘The Importance of Discipline to Student Learning’ speech. You should listen more, lecture less, Tucker. Especially when you’re new. And especially in a small town.”
“And you’re an expert on small towns?”
“I grew up in one. And I know people.”
“And I don’t?”
“Let me put it this way—if I were an administrator and I saw a new teacher with a lot of enthusiasm, I wouldn’t crush her spirit with the rule book the first chance I got. Someone less generous-minded might think you were being an ass.”
“If I’d waited to tell you, you wouldn’t have had time to fix it before school began.”
“You could have cut me a little slack.”
“And you should be more careful.”
“And what’s with the ‘older and wiser’ routine? We went to school together, Tucker.”
“I hate to break in here,” Anna said, laughter in her voice and something dangerous in her eyes, “but why don’t you take this to the table, Tuck?” She thrust her bowl into his hands. “And bring me a plate of food, please? That would be sweet.”
Uh-oh. These two alone would not be good. “How about if all three of us go?” he tried.
“I trust you, darling. I’ll just be giving Cricket some tips for helping you be a better administrator. I’ll have a thigh and a couple of legs—dark meat. Potatoes, no gravy, corn no butter and iced tea, please. Sweet ’n Low, not NutraSweet.”
On top of everything, Anna was a high-maintenance eater. He could hardly yank her away from Cricket. That would look macho and distrustful. He almost wished he’d told Harvey he was Forest’s gay life partner. It was beginning to sound safer than having Anna as his fake wife.
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