Chapter 106

“Jefferson is busy.”

He was once again enamored with the phone.

“I could leave it here, if it wouldn’t annoy you or get him in trouble. That way, he could phone home, like E.T. My home, so we could talk every single day.”

“I don’t know what E.T. is,” Calvin said.

“Show them.” Patrick tried to roll onto his side, but the two dogs and Funny face wanted him right where he was, so he obliged.

“Jefferson?” I held out my hand.

“Yes?”

“Can I borrow the phone a sec?”

“Sure.” Reluctantly, I thought, he passed it to me, once he was down on the ground with the rest of us.

I stopped the music to Google E.T. “Heaven has Google,” I said to Patrick.

“Good to know.”

“And the Wi-Fi is excellent.”

“One would hope.”

“Though I assume we’re technically still on the outskirts, right?”

“Technically,” Calvin said with a smile as bright as the warm sun above that got me to wondering if we could get way up there via the rainbow.