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“So, after the library today, how about we stop and get some lunch? I know this cool place that let’s you open peanuts and throw the shells on the floor”
“No way!” Matthehispered loudly,closer to my face, if that were even possible
“You don’t think much of personal space, do you, buddy?”
He pulled back and crinkled his little nose up “What’s that?”
“Never o? Let’s leave early so we can get a pri”
“What’s a priain
Michelle covered her hed quietly “You’ll learn,” she joked as she shook her head and handed me Matthew’s backpack
I threw the backpack over my shoulder and ere out the door
A couple hours later, we’d read one book about a calf who’d wandered away froest version of “Old MacDonald” I’d ever heard, and done a dance where we all had to pretend to be a different anie trunk, for obvious reasons, but Matthew told me I couldn’t since they don’t live on farms, so he made me be a duck
Storytime ended and I buckled hiain?” he asked in his squeaky little voice
“There’s this restaurant I like called Cowboy Phil’s When you sit down, they put a bowl of peanuts on the table and you get to eat theht on the floor”
In the rearview row huge “Whoa!” he whispered
“Yep, and they have an arcade there and all these cool anio, but now they’re stuffed It’s pretty aweso another word, he folded his hands in his lap and looked out the , sain with that daht in thewith the peanuts Matthew hadn’t even cli at the bowl
“Hang on, hang on” I laughed as I helped him into his seat
The hostess smiled and walked away as I settled into my chair next to him
Before we even picked up the menus to look at them, my phone beeped with a text alert
It was from Michelle
M: Hi I know this is totally neurotic, but I’oing?
I couldn’t help reat We just picked up two hookers and we’re heading back to the hotel to smoke a couple of joints Why didn’t you tell me he hated vodka? Rum it is!
I’m so dead
I looked up at Mattheas furiously pounding peanuts with his fist like a ha theoofball”
He looked up at ed “I don’t like peanuts”
As I laughed at hiain, my phone beeped
M: You are SO not funny