The sound of the door filtered slowly down into Andy’s mostly-sleeping brain, and he was only just beginning to crack one eye to check the time—it didn’t feel like it had been long enough for Scooter to have gotten Billie all the way to school yet—when the bed bounced with Scooter’s weight flopping down beside him. “Mmph?” Andy mumbled. He managed to get one eye open. Scooter had only been gone ten minutes.
“I’ve been parenting for all of two weeks and I’m already being deemed useless. Kendra asked her mom if she an’ Billie could walk together. Alone. Without adults. Because adults suck.”
“This adult definitely sucks,” Andy said, almost entirely on reflex. “Particularly well, even.”
“Mmmm, yeah. Was that an observation or an offer?”
Andy levered his other eye open and pushed up onto hi
