______ like nobody’s watching

We dare you!

Nia shrugs and clears her throat. “Shoot!”

Thalia turns up the music.

“It’s okay…” Cal rests feather-light fingers on Nia’s trapezius, “She didn’t mean to draw in another book. We have so many… laying about… an honest…misstep.”

“It wahzzz NOT a missssss-tep!” Thalia corrects. “Think of the possibilities! Wouldn’t UUUUUUU like to receive a book with a sirrrrr-prihhhz in it?”

Wrong turns are as important as right turns.
More important, sometimes.
~Richard Bach