Jody pulls me tighter and then releases me. “Shut up, okay?”
“Okay.” I look around. “Want to ditch the social tonight? I don’t have the energy.”
She laughs. “You got it. Let’s tell Ben and Helen we’re going home.”
We don’t go straight home, though. We stop for ice cream first.
“I won’t still be able to do this as much when Hannah gets back,” I tell Jody.
She shakes her head at me. “I’ll keep dragging you out of the house. You can bring the kid if you want.”
“Promise?”
She nods. “Dragging people out of the house to do stuff they don’t want to do is mygift, Laura.”
