Tell the Wolves I'm Home

June visits the painting at the bank. She adds faint stripes to her and Greta’s hair with gold paint, certain that Finn would be pleased.

One evening, Greta does not have play practice and her and June’s parents aren’t working late, so the family eats dinner together and then plays Trivial Pursuit. June is surprised that they all have fun, playing late into the night while eating popcorn. After her mother and Greta have gone to bed, June asks her father if he has ever met Toby.

Her father explains that he has and then tells June the history of the dissent between her mother and Finn. Her mother was also an artist, and she and Finn planned to be artists together, until Finn left for Europe at age 17. He returned with Toby, and June’s father hypothesizes that June’s mother became jealous. She blamed Toby for taking Finn away from her and seemed embarrassed that she became an accountant and lived a socially acceptable life in the suburbs.

June visits Toby. She is surprised to find the apartment a mess, knowing Finn would never live in it that way. Together, they clean up the dirty dishes and the records scattered about.