Chapter 13

“Get your nursefriend to fix it for you. I never want to see you again!”

“Good for you, Darcy!” Koko chimed in excitedly. “Biff! Pow! You rock, girl!”

Lewis had slipped in unnoticed, invisible except for two glow bracelets on his wrists. He reached in and turned off the water. “My dad says don’t waste water, you guys,” he said primly. He folded his arms, in an almost exact copy of his grandfather downstairs whom he had never really paid any attention to before tonight, and exited the bathroom, proud and regal.

“Game over, check and mate!” said Dick.

“We did,” said Peter.

“Ow, fuck,” said Ned.

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Lewis felt like the adults had hijacked his game. He wandered back downstairs, and found Hal “call me Gramps” in the den, fiddling with his old-fashioned radio. He stood quietly in the doorway, afraid to disturb until a lightning bolt gave him away.