Our flight was delayed and we finally arrived home after 1:00 AM. I walked in the door and the first thing I noticed was that the vacuum cleaner was in the living room. Thinking that it was unlikely that Matt had suddenly developed a desire for housework, a little alarm went off.
"Why is the vacuum cleaner out?"
"Oh, I guess I forgot to put it away. I thought it would be nice if I cleaned up a little before you got home."
Alarm Two.
I looked more carefully at the living room. I noticed that although all my knickknacks were on the correct piece of furniture, they were not quite right. It clicked.
"You had a party!"
"Why do you say that?"
"Because the vacuum cleaner is out and all my things are not where they belong."
"That's not true. Kirill took pictures!"
"We put them back exactly as they were."
"Not exactly."
Matt realizes what he just said.
He stood silent for a moment.
I could almost hear his mind working.
"My mom has a third eye."
Pete says; "We will talk about this in the morning." We all went up to bed.
Tired, I gratefully change into nightclothes and get into bed. I notice an awful smell. I reach down and feel something icky.
"Oh my God, what is that?" I turn on the light and discover that someone has vomited by my bed.
I mop up the remaining stuff with a rag. We change the bed linens. I wash the vomit from the offending material and put it in the washer. I add bleach and set the washer to HOT in order to sanitize it. I go back to bed, thankfully now with clean linen, and the offending odor on the carpet masked by Lysol.
In the morning, I tell Matt what I'd found the night before.
Matt says; "But Mom, we closed the door, and told everyone that your bedroom was off limits."
Yeah. That works!
Later, I asked Matt; "Why did you have a party, especially when our last words to you as we left for New York was "NO PARTIES!" ...And, especially with all that we had been going through with your brother this summer?"
(Mike had been making some interesting choices that year, but that's another story.)
Matt said; "Well. I thought that even though Mike did all that stuff, you didn't kill him."
Sigh.
I'm sure it seemed very logical to him.