"Mostly Dad yells at Uncle Charlie. He's got a little...garden," David decided. "Besides that, I've heard stories from both of them from college. What can they say? I'm not doing anything Dad didn't do himself." Which didn't mean Adam didn't try to say it, but it went in one ear and out the other where David was concerned.

Still, they had a system. David didn't let himself get caught, and Adam pretended that his younger brothers weren't passing his son weed.

"You're lucky," he told Izak. "We've got a downtown condo. It's the five minutes on the brown line, absolutely no excuse to be late."