High-Caliber Concealer
“It was times like this that she missed her Dad. She remembered him as a gregarious charmer who always seemed to have the right thing to say. She remembered a lot more laughing at the dinner table when he had been around.
Nikki scrubbed extra hard a dish in the sink and wondered if Nell would have been a different kind of mother if Phillipe had been a different kind of father.
“Well, this seems to be going well,” said Jane carrying in a stack of plates.
Nikki stared at her in disbelief. Sometime...s she thought Jane existed in a parallel universe. “My mother is offering to show my boyfriend my junior high photos. Jenny is draped over my ex-boyfriend, which would be a lot less annoying if he didn’t look so happy about it. And Ellen and my grandmother are attempting to discuss ammunition using mime, since they don’t want my mother to notice.”
“I know! It was adorable.”
“That part was adorable, but nothing else.”
“I don’t know why you’re so uptight,” said Jane. “We can all handle ourselves around Z’ev, and aside from my gaff about Canada at dinner—which, I guess is why I shouldn’t be out in the field—I don’t think we’re in danger of exposing ourselves.”MoreLess
Nikki scrubbed extra hard a dish in the sink and wondered if Nell would have been a different kind of mother if Phillipe had been a different kind of father.
“Well, this seems to be going well,” said Jane carrying in a stack of plates.
Nikki stared at her in disbelief. Sometime...s she thought Jane existed in a parallel universe. “My mother is offering to show my boyfriend my junior high photos. Jenny is draped over my ex-boyfriend, which would be a lot less annoying if he didn’t look so happy about it. And Ellen and my grandmother are attempting to discuss ammunition using mime, since they don’t want my mother to notice.”
“I know! It was adorable.”
“That part was adorable, but nothing else.”
“I don’t know why you’re so uptight,” said Jane. “We can all handle ourselves around Z’ev, and aside from my gaff about Canada at dinner—which, I guess is why I shouldn’t be out in the field—I don’t think we’re in danger of exposing ourselves.”MoreLess
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