The comma would end up between but and orange.
"You may have an apple or an orange, but you can't have both."
This is because you're coming to a conjunction, which usually has a comma preceding, or coming before, it.
The time you stop working could be a few different things.
Retirement
Off shift
Vacation
I’m not sure what your choices are.
If the story would have been from Laurie's perspective, A. The audience would have been afraid of Laurie's mother because Laurie is so afraid of her, and C. The audience might have known that Laurie was misbehaving at school and making up the "Charles" character to mislead his mother.
It is clear that Laurie is afraid of his mother, he wouldn't have invented Charles to cover up for his misbehaving otherwise. This fear would have appear in the story, as well as the truth of his behaviour.
By giving him a suprise party????..............
