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“I didn’t ask for your help,” I say.
“You were going to lose it anyway. Why do you have to be so stubborn?”
“Why do you have to try and insert yourself into everything?”
I turn away and Saxon is no longer playing pinball.
“Saxon?” I call out. “Saxon? Where are you?”
“Over here,” my son says.
I turn to my right as a wave of panic hits me.
Saxon is at another game. That’s all.
I glance back at Cutter and curl my lip.
I feel this grumpy baseball player is nothing but bad news for me and my life.
“Virtual reality?” Cutter asks, looking down at Saxon.
My son has his arm all the way up, holding a thick set of blacked-out goggles.
“It’s really cool,” Saxon says. “We’re going to walk through the woods and attack zombies.”
“What’s with you and zombies tonight?” I ask.
“Zombies are cool, Mom,” Saxon says with a face so cocky I feel like a mini version of Hunter just appeared.
“So I just put this over my head?” Cutter asks.
“Yup,” Saxon says.
I have to admit I can’t remember the last time anyone paid this much attention to Saxon that wasn’t me. Bethany even came over twice to remind Cutter that his pizza is still sitting untouched at his table.
If this is supposed to be Cutter’s dinner, he must be ravaged with hunger by now.
He’s not too worried about it.
He’s putting on the goggles to play some virtual reality zombie shooting game with my ten-year-old son.
Of course this is nice to see.
But Petty Piper knows how this plays out. I know what it’ll be like when Saxon says something about Cutter and Cutter isn’t around because he’s left town. Or if Saxon says something in front of his father, then I have Hunter pestering me about dating someone. Which I am not doing!
“Okay, get ready,” Saxon says.
“This is freaking my eyes out, kid,” Cutter says. “Are you dizzy?”
“Not at all,” Saxon says. “You need to man up.”
I almost burst out laughing.
Saxon is a third the size of Cutter and he’s telling the muscular baseball player to man up.
“On your right,” Saxon says.
Cutter throws a punch. “Got him. Oh, look, there’s a weapon on the ground.”
