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I sat on the couch next to Skye and pulled her into my arms. “I thought you stayed at Sophia’s? I’m here, half pint. I’m always here.”
“I thought you left me,” she blubbered.
My heart ached at her words. I never wanted her to feel abandoned.
“Skye, I went to a friend’s and lost track of time. I didn’t leave you. I’m here.”
She wiped her eyes. “I’m sorry.”
I ruffled her hair. “Nothing to be sorry about. I’m sorry I wasn’t home.”
She squinted up at me and stared at my neck. “Ooh.”
“Oh, what?” I asked.
Her lips curled up into a smile. “You went to a ‘special’ friend’s house.”
“What?”
She pointed at my neck. “You have a hickey!”
Shit.
I rubbed the back of my neck. “How do you know what that is?”
She glared at me. “I’m not a child!”
Except she was. I tried to give her the birds and bees talk two years ago, and she told me the school had already given it to her, and she had the internet.
“Skye, don’t let anyone give you hickeys. Not until you’re thirty!” I joked.
She slapped my arm. “Stop it!”
“You okay?” I asked.
She nodded. “I’m sorry.”
“I know.”
She kicked my foot. “So who was it?”
“Nunya.”
She rolled her eyes at the stupid dad joke I tried to set up. Then she frowned, and that put my ‘dad senses’ on high alert. “Felix?”
“Yeah, kiddo?”
“You don’t have to be a monk,” she said. She wrapped her arms around her knees and looked down at the floor. “You should have a life. A S-E-X life.”
I covered my ears with my hands. “You’re too young for that. Let’s not talk about that.” I wiped my hands on my jeans and stood up from the couch. “Did you have breakfast at Sophia’s?”
“No. I left early,” she said but didn’t explain further.
Hmm. If there was anything I knew about teenage girls, it was to let them tell you when they were ready. I wouldn’t pry, but I could tell something was up between my sister and her bestie.
“You want to go to the diner?” I asked.
“Which one?”
