"I think I finally get it."

"Get what?" There was something about the look in his eyes, the confidence, the surety, that had me swallowing hard.

"You." And as he smiled, it was almost smug. "I get you, Oz. You're a little, Aren't you?"

If only I had known at the time just how much those few little words were going to change my life.

The Little Of Oz Series

I wasn't happy when Deacon decided he was going to go and clean the bathroom like he said and I ended up following him, grabbing the back of his shirt so he couldn't get away. He ended up flipping the lid on the loo and making me sit on that while he used his clothes to mop up the worst of the water on the floor and then fetched the towels from the bedroom. He did that so fast that he was back before I had even realized that he had left and had a chance to follow him.

/"Guess what I had to do this morning, Mr?/" Deacon asked once he fished his phone out of the pocket of the clothes on the floor, grimacing as he realized that it was a little bit wet, too.

/"What?/" I asked, pulling at his wallpaper, gasping as I pulled a piece off. I screwed it up small in my hand so that he would never know.

/"I had to do lots of mopping to clean up all your pee. Maybe Daddy should help you next time so you don't miss./"

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