“Thank you, Jukes!”
“Can we agree that Stevie Wonder’s version is sticks downthe bestversion of all time?”
“We can.”
“Can we also agree the fact that he wrote it as part of his campaign to make MLK’s birthday a national holiday is amazin’?”
“Again…we can.” An impressed expression creeps into my gaze. “And it is quite amazing for you to know that.”
“You surprised that I do?”
“Nope.”
“Because you know me.”
“I do know you.”
“And I hope I know you, Gillybean,” he mischievously states at the same time he pops a yellow jellybean into his mouth. “You jus’ get home?”
Gahhhhhh,I love that we call his house home.
My own place is actually beginning to feel less and less that way.
I will say I think Owlfonso misses me as much as I miss him, though.
“I did. I basically just pulled in the driveway.”
“Perfect.” The grin he’s growing continues to do so. “Take us inside, birthday queen.”
“Us?”
“Yeah,” Thayne proudly chuckles, frame moving around his hotel room, likely looking for one of his shoes.
Irony of course, being the yelling he does about Bronny losing his own shoes.
“Plannin’ to stay on chat with you ‘til pick up.” Grabbing my work bag is followed by me exiting my vehicle, an action that has him asking, “Bronskie already at the Skudders?”
“Yeah, he rode home with Jessey and Sergio.”
“That’s her boyfriend, right?”
“Right.”
“Is it wrong I’mrelievedthat girl is hookin’ up with someone else and so is he?”
“Not wrong but…” my head bobbles around upon my approach of the front double doors, “not totally out of the woodwork since heishooking up withherbest friend and her best friend – who Bronny went to HC with – is just hooking up with him until Jessey and Sergio break up again.”
“Why do we have our own little telenovela in our neighborhood?”
“Just typical teen drama shit,” I playfully correct while keying in the entry code.
“I don’t remember bein’ that dramatic.”
“Grams does.”
He lets another chuckle escape prior to asking, “She call to say happy birthday?”
“She did.” Pushing one door open is done in tandem with replying, “She said she’d pour an extra shot in her hot toddy for me. Another allergy spell seems to have got to her. She was having a lot of trouble breathing.”
