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“Did you stub your toe?”
“I’m fine,” he claims, but I know he’s lying. But I’m not pushing him to open up. Elder’s a tit for tat person. If he opens up, he’ll expect me to open up some more. And I am done discussing my past.
I open the truck door for him and he secures Robin in the car seat.
“You’ve gotten good with the car seat,” I remark as he switches on the engine.
“Practice makes perfect.” He waggles his eyebrows at me. “And I am good at practicing.”
I slap him. “Stop flirting with me or the gossip gals will shove us at the May Pole faster than you can say ‘We already have a baby!’.”
He clears his throat. “The May Pole is not for me.”
“No? Please tell me you’re not sexist.”
“I’m not sexist.”
“There’s no reason to worry about being the only man. Since last year, men are welcome to dance around the May Pole with the women.”
“I prefer to be the only man.” He winks.
“Then, you must be scared.”
“I’m not scared.”
“Really? You sound awful scared.”
“I’m not scared,” he screeches in a high-pitched voice. “That’s my scared voice.”
I giggle. “That’s your scared voice? You sound like someone’s squeezing your balls off.”
“I have a different sound for that.”
“You are such a goofball,” I say before he can demonstrate his getting his ‘balls getting squeezed off’-voice.
“But I’m a loveable goofball,” he sings.
I snort. “Loveable? I think you mean annoying.”
But he is awful loveable,Rebel Harmony says.
Doesn’t matter. I don’t deserve love. I’m responsible for all of my family dying, remember?
But Elder said it’s not our fault.
He doesn’t know everything.
And he’s not leaving us after hearing our story.
Elder squeezes my hand. “You okay? You spaced out there for a minute.”
I force a smile. “Trying to come up with some synonyms for goofball.”
“I have a few – adorable, endearing, cute—”
“I think you’re confused about the meaning of the word goofball.”
“Nope, I’m not.” He pulls the truck to the curb and parks. “You okay to walk a block to Main Street?”
