Status Updates From Just Pretending (The Chicag...

I shuffle my feet in the snow. “You didn’t have to come.”
“Yeah, I did,” Daniel says, brushing his thumb against his
nose. “Falcons stay together and all that.”
“Not when one falcon pretends to be an eagle to impress the
other falcon’s sister,” I mutter.
Daniel eyes me seriously. “You weren’t really an eagle. More of
a…penguin?”
I shove him. “Oh, great, thanks!”