I’m supposed to be working on
a history paper
distracted
I look at some blogs,
update my site
and then before I know it
I am googling
“Ethan Frain”

The top result reads “Frain wins scholarship to Tech”
I click and pull up a story in the County Times
about Ethan the soccer star
his picture is there, smiling
his hair wind-blown
a soccer ball tucked under his arm
looking like a totally normal
high-school boy

but I know better

I click through story after story
about Ethan
mostly about his soccer career
and I am so mad I can hardly read the screen
I punch a few buttons
to print out a picture
of this horrible, no-good person

stomping downstairs
I find my Dad and Gabby putting
together a puzzle at the kitchen table
I throw the paper onto the puzzle between them

“I want to press charges.”