#221992 - He was soaking wet, even through both his sweatshirts. She leaned in and pecked a small kiss on my lips, “If it interests you, then it has to be something good!” Joshua startled me by speaking, “Yeah, not like I’ve been trying to teach you for fifteen years or so now…” She stuck her tongue out to him in the mirror, “Well now someone that I respect cares!” He shook his head at her… “Kids these days… so disrespectful to their elders… I blame the mother…” Marsha looked up from the book she was reading… I was pleasantly surprised to see it was the copy of Gardens of the Moon she had borrowed from me… “Well, if it wasn’t for the absentee father, maybe they would know how to act!” Joshua smiled at her. I got dressed quietly in the dark, slipped my phone into my pocket, put the headphones Karly had gotten me for Christmas in and snuck downstairs.