Oh.
“You’re right.” Maybe? “But…but this is happening very quickly.”
Was that a reasonable response?
I’d lost track of all logic at this point.
“Well…okay…” Pouting, he glared at me again, but it was a completely different expression while still being just as cute. “I’ll be patient but I’m right.”
And clearly not as big as he’d been when we’d started our conversation.
Argument?
Whatever we were doing.
“Thank you for being patient.” I wasn’t going to tell him he was wrong. I was a dick, but not that much of one. “And I really am sorry for being mean.”
And his arms came up again.
“And you’re sorry for ignoring me.” His attitude was adorable too. “I had to find the funny people by myself. My mother worried.”
He’d found who?
He’d told his mother he was little?
“Your mother knows you like…funny people.” I really needed to get back home more. “Does anyone else know it?”
Head cocking, the question clearly confused Chipmunk. “My dad? My friends?”
Yep, he thought I was an idiot.
“I was kind of worried that the people back home had been mean to you too.” That confession had his anger subsiding again.
“No…the bad naughty people are mean but the fun naughty people are good.” He shrugged like that made perfect sense. “You talked to bad naughty.”
Wasn’t that the truth.
Wait.
“There are good naughty people back home?”
Who was that?
And when had he found them?
Chipmunk was a little?
Could this year get any weirder?
Chapter 4
Teddy
“Yep.” Daddy Levi was just silly. “Lots.”
His grumbly Daddy sigh was cute but he was still a meanie who needed to be nice. “We’ll come back to that.”
That was Daddy talk to distract a little, but I’d remember.
