Rox noticed Dezi’s eyes as they shifted from him to his father and then back again. He knew Dezi was trying to tell him something, and he looked over at Nick, wondering what it was. There was a definite pinch to Nick’s face, and the tension he felt in the air wasn’t imagined, so he knew that Dezi and his father must have had words.
With this in mind, he looked down at the first course and saw a bowl of soup. Soup! Suddenly it struck him funny, and try as he might, he couldn’t keep the giggles from coming out. When he suddenly let out a loud guffaw, the people at the table looked at him as if he’d suddenly gone mad. Dezi quickly jumped up from the table and hurried around it to Rox.
“Rox, what’s wrong?”
Rox couldn’t say anything for laughing, but he finally managed to point toward his so
