title: Is That Your Mother-In-Law Under The Bed?: They Thought No One Was Watching
author:  Barbara Oliver Fletcher 
description: Barbara Oliver Fletcher was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, but she now lives in Half Moon Bay, California, with her husband, Charles. They have six children, eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A retired travel agent, Barbara loves writing, photography, and bingo.
zlib_text: **Chapter 1**
  
    
  
  Cameron Sexton’s finger hovered over the standby button on the television
  remote control. He thought about calling upstairs to see if his wife was
  almost ready but figured if he kept quiet he might at least be able to watch
  the kick-off before having to leave the house.
  
  He glanced at the teenager fidgeting nervously in the armchair across the
  room.
  
  ‘Are you all right, Ollie?’ Cameron asked.
  
  The young man looked up from the television, nodding a little too
  enthusiastically. ‘Yes, Mr Sexton,’ he said. ‘Thanks for calling me.’
  
  ‘It’s Cameron and thank _you_. It’s always nice to have a reliable babysitter.
  How are your mum and dad doing?’
  
  Oliver nodded, offering a vague ‘all right’, which Cameron thought could mean
  either ‘they’re absolutely wonderful, never been better’, or ‘they’ve split up
  and are living at opposite ends of the country’, depending on which way the
  teenager’s hormones were raging.
  
  The sound of a whistle and an overly excited commentator took Camer