LIKE Excerpt
“Whatcha playing, Jennie?”
“Candy Crush Saga … it’s addicting!”
“Hmm. Done with Farmville?”
“What?” she asked, distracted, not looking up.
“Never mind.”
He realized it had been a while since she spammed his Facebook account with Farmville requests. He had tried to play it, briefly, but it bored him silly. Plus, it took too much time.
Before Farmville, he had played this game for a while that required you to park different cars in different places to make varying amounts of money. You also had to re-park the cars at certain intervals. That game had held his interest for several weeks. He even began to wake up early to ensure he moved his cars at the right time to maximize the money he made.
Until Claire busted him.
On one of those mornings, he inadvertently woke her up as he tried to extricate himself from their blankets and get quietly out of bed. He was unsuccessful—the bed was annoyingly noisy—and she asked where he was going.
“Oh, um, I just wanted to check something out.”
“What? It’s early,” she replied, her voice muffled. She was lying on her stomach, face into the pillow.
“Yeah, just something online.” He tried, but couldn’t think of anything else to say. It was always when he couldn’t think of something to say that she seemed most interested… or most suspicious.
She rolled over, sat up, hair poking out in weird places, and gave him a questioning look. She knew him well… that he hated mornings passionately. He was worthless until he had coffee, and that was preferably after 8:00 a.m. Her interest was quickly piqued.
The clock on the bedside table said 5:00 a.m.
“Well,” he began, and then started giggling. “Okay, this is going to sound silly…”
“What?”
“I was gonna go move my cars.”
“Huh? Cars?”
“On the game.”
“The Facebook game?”
“Yes.”
“Uhhh!” she groaned, turned, slammed her face into the pillow. “Don’t come back and wake me up!”
And, so ended that car-parking game. Rest in peace.
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