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Besides, as a male, there are definitely worse things he could be doing.” Dee grunted. “You have a point.”
Livy looked at her own mace, then back at the lion. “Uh-oh,” Vic said.
“Livy?” “Yeah?” Vic leaned his head back, his chin still resting on her chest. “Some days . . .” “Yeah?” “Some days you make me want to drive a railroad spike through my head.” “I have to admit . . . I did not see the conversation going that way.”
“They’re trying to control me!” Kyle yelled from the couch. “Control my brilliance! They have yet to realize they can’t control me! Their narrow, noncreative minds simply don’t understand what I’m trying to do! They can’t conceive—” “Stop it, Kyle,” Livy cut in calmly. “Whatever,” the boy muttered. “They don’t deserve me.” Coop shook his head. “How do you do that?” Livy was one of the few people Kyle ever listened to, but Livy had no idea why. Although if she had to guess . . . “He may have seen what I did to that squirrel who got between me and that beehive in your parents’ backyard. You know
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“Your family is coming here?” a voice from the doorway eagerly asked. Livy snarled. “Kyle—” “Honey badgers? Honey badgers are coming to stay with us?” “Kyle—” Kyle clapped his hands together and turned in a goofy circle. “I’m so excited!” he cheered. “Honey badgers! Honey badgers! Honey badgers!”
“Tell me your mother’s coming. Please! You think this time she’ll sit for me? I promise not to ask her to do it naked this time. But she has to wear red. She looks so amazing in red. She has those razor-sharp cheekbones.” Kyle stopped crowing long enough to look Livy over and add, “Guess you get your looks from your father, huh?”
Jess nodded in agreement at her friend’s ominous words and was about to go inside their house when something soft hit her in the back of the head. She looked down and saw a T-shirt, then looked up and saw her daughter standing in the doorway. One chubby little arm pressed against the doorway kept her standing on her stout little legs. With her free hand she pointed
“Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuug!” Jess’s fangs were out, but before she could move, Johnny appeared behind her daughter. Still holding his violin and bow, he picked the girl up in his other arm and said, “I’ll play with her. I’ll play with her. No reason for anyone to get hysterical!” And with that he disappeared into the house.
“What is it about that guy that ticks you off so much?” “I have no idea,” Vic whispered back. “I don’t even know the man. But I get around him and all I want to do is tear his head off and wear it like a hat.” Shen laughed. “I love hybrids. You guys are always so fucked up. And it’s always so random!”
“The world’s about to end!” she announced cheerfully, certain that if the Rapture was coming, she’d done enough good in her life to ensure her passage to Paradise. “Because I’m sure this is a sign of the End of Days.”
“is your child, is she not? I mean based on eye—” “Mama!” “—color.” Livy whispered against Vic’s ear, “Nice race-save there, Ruskie.” “Stop it.”
“Quiet, stuffed toy!”
“I don’t scare. Kyle told me my lack of fear was a sign of my sociopathic nature. I told him that should make him very worried that I would kill him in his sleep. So he stopped saying it.”
Livy woke up swinging, her fist ramming into Vic’s palm, which he was quick enough to raise so that she didn’t hit his face. “Good morning.” Livy cleared her throat. “Sorry about that. I dreamed I was fighting rampaging squirrels . . . and Blayne.” “Were you winning?” “I don’t want to talk about it.”
Lock pointed at Livy. “Your eye is twitching uncontrollably.” “We in the family,” Jake said, his hand landing on Livy’s shoulder, “call that Livy’s tell.” Livy spun and rammed her fist into her cousin’s stomach. He didn’t drop, but his knees looked ready to buckle and his face blanched. “Did I tell you that?” Livy asked.
Uncle Bart.”
Uh.. Is there an Uncle Bart and an Uncle Balt and i missed it or did somebody screw up a bit?..
