“You made it!”






He was still a bit further off than seemed comfortable to respond without shouting, so he pulled his hands from his pockets and cut across the grass to join her before saying, “It was a peculiar address, but very precise. No trouble at all, really. Even if it’s not what I expected when you said a cafe.”

“
I
could eat you if it’s that important to you.”


He snorted, spared her a quick glance out of the corner of his eyes while wrinkling his nose at the effort of pulling off the perfect combo to trigger her charged move. He played most of the time while biting his lower lip, fingers white on the controller, while she always looked like she was about to fall asleep: tired eyes, calm, slumped like that would

ON THE WAY

In the back seat of the car, I couldn’t see out over the edge of the windows. Even if Maria still had that old, banged up baby seat in the back seat, the angle was just enough that I could sometimes see the tops of cars driving by, or if I was lucky and we were beside a big delivery truck, I could see the driver. I’d usually smile up at them on the off chance they’d look down, but that was rare. Anyway, now she had that little harness that I