My Cardboard Balcony

One Fabulous Aristocrat by Belinda Roddie I want a dish of caviar and a glass of Chardonnay to cleanse my palate of my sins and get me through the day. Don't tell Mom I've been drinking, and don't tell Dad I'm gay. I'll keep my ship from sinking and start living life my way.

Harrison, my father's best friend, was ready to put his daughter Max in boarding school. His reasoning: She was being rebellious, not doing well enough academically, and overall seeming to be psychologically unstable. Two of those reasons were false. The true reason - the rebellion - was partially due to me, and all the times I picked her up from her house late at night so we could steal booze from the liquor store and kiss in my car.