“You can come out,” he says. “I know you’re there.”
 
 8
 
 Oscar
 
 How the hell did she think she was going to sneak by me?
 
 Is she being serious right now?
 
 Dolly doesn’t make a move, though. She stays where she is, just out of sight, and she waits.
 
 “Dolly.”
 
 Silence.
 
 “I’m going to count to three, Dolly.” I can’t believe I’m pulling this out. “If you don’t come here by then, you won’t like what happens.”
 
 “What?”
 
 There we go.
 
 “I’ve got your attention,” I say.
 
 “You can’t count to three on me. I’m not a kid.”
 
 “One.”
 
 “Oscar!”
 
 “Two.”
 
 Silence.
 
 “Three.”
 
 I move as I say the word. I slide around the corner, grab her hair, and tug. Dolly cries out, but we both know I’m not really hurting her.
 
 “What are you doing?”
 
 “I gave you an option,” I say. “You chose not to take it.”
 
 “But Oscar!”
 
 I have no interest in arguing with a petulant brat, so I haul her to my dining room table, pull out a chair, and sit. I yank her over my lap. She lands hard.
 
 “What the fuck? Oscar, this is so messed up. You can’t really be planning on spanking me!”
 
 “Oh, but I am.”
 
 I stare at her ass.
 
 “You look good in my clothes.”
 
 “Look, I’m sorry about the clothes,” she says.
 
 “You aren’t, but you will be.”
 
 “I am! I am sorry!”