her parents ask her to babysit the boy of the couple they’re going out with.  her brother knows the boy as the one who doesn’t get to read aloud in english class.  her parents want her to eat but she ate in her sleep.  the other couple has problems.  her father isn’t jealous.  her father is ugly.  the first thing the boy does he does with a pencil.  a thin line moves across the white wall that in her dream is a tooth.  food comes to her brother in small portions.