"I have forty-two
minutes." Bradley sank down into
the chair opposite Angel, who handed him a slice of pepperoni pizza, a box of
fries, and a soda. “Assuming another
eighteen minute drive and five minutes to get back to my desk, which gives us
nineteen minutes, so go.” Bradley took a
big bite of his pizza and smiled across the table at his wife.
“You’re ridiculous.” She laughed.
“And you’re wasting time,” Bradley
spoke around his pizza.
“Fine. I talked to Marta
this morning. Apparently Adam has started
walking. Marta is beside herself.”
“I’d imagine so. Marta was
thrilled when Adam figured out how to touch his own face, walking must make her
lose her mind.”
“Yes, well, Stevie is less
than thrilled though, because now Adam can reach a whole new level of things
that Marta is making him go around and child proof.”
“And that precisely is why I
child proofed absolutely everything in one run. I don’t want to do it again.”
“Also, Izzy is smarter than
Adam, so we don’t have to do quite as much work as Stevie.”
It went on like that for the
nineteen minutes. Angel gave Bradley all
the details from their friends in the daycare social circle. Bradley ate them all up. As they stood up to leave, he wrapped his arm
around his wife’s shoulders and kissed her on the head. “I hate the days that I have to work.”
“And I hate the days I have
to work,” Angel smiled back, “But I think we’ll both appreciate them when Izzy
heads off to school, and we can help her pay.”
“Logic.” Bradley gave his wife a proper kiss as they
came to the front of the parking garage, and then stepped away, heading to his
own car. “Tell Adam congratulations for
me. And Stevie, good luck.”
“Can do.” Angel waited and watched as he got into his
car, and waved as he drove away. Then she got into her own car and headed back
towards the house with all the other mothers and toddlers. She loved it when it was her day to not work.
The first line of this story
was legally stolen from my dear friend Gwen. See what she did with the line I
gave her today, and see what she originally wrote for this starting line
tomorrow over at http://apprenticenevermaster.wordpress.com/. <3
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