“Hey
neighbor,” Cole’s voice called over my shoulder as I was leaving my house. I
looked at my watch. It was 10:15 in the morning.
“Why aren’t
you at work?” I spun around to see CJ sitting next to him on the stoop working
on a red ice pop. He grinned at me with a nearly toothless smile and the bottom
half of his face is covered with red drool making him look like a freshly fed,
tiny vampire. “Isn’t a little early for that?” I pointed to CJ’s ice pop.
“Well, good
morning to you too.” He bent down scooping up CJ before descending the stairs
to meet me at the sidewalk. “I would be at work today, but a couple days ago,
Jaws here got booted from daycare for biting another kid.”
I gasped
and leaned close to CJ. “You did?”
He
responded by smiling and almost leaping out of Cole’s arms and into mine.
“Hey, no,
buddy, don’t— Sorry, he’s covered in popsicle juice.”
I clutched
CJ and waved him away. “It’s fine. I don’t mind. Do I, cutie?” I blew a
raspberry into his neck and he squealed. I couldn’t believe how much I’d missed
that little nugget. He smelled like soap and fresh strawberries.
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