"I warned them before you came." Jason told me amid the din of the restaurant. "I told them that you'd moved in with a guy, and you were bringing him with you."
"Thank you." I replied. It spares the awkwardness.
Later that night Paul (my ex-fiancee) told me, "When Jason told me, I couldn't believe it. I mean, it was only three weeks ago when we went out to ice cream, and you never mentioned anything about it."
Well, it is true, in case you haven't already heard. I moved recently and Max is one of my new roommates. These blurry pictures gives you a vague picture of what our abode looks like.
One half of the living room.
Suz and I in the dining room enjoying cucumber water and a Mexican dinner.
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My car was idling at a red light as we were on our way to Jason's birthday party when someone honked.
"What is going on?" Max piped in from his car seat in the back.
"I don't know." I replied honestly.
"I was not asking you." Max informed me in a matter-of-fact manner. "I was talking to myself." As if asking yourself a question out loud were the most normal thing ever...
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We pulled up to Annie's apartment building. Max is immediately mesmorized by the water fountain.
"This is Anne's place." I explained to Max.
"Wow, she has a really big house." Max exclaimed.
"Oh, Max, this is an apartment building." I clarified.
"What is that?" He asked, because he lives in a house, and has always lived in a house.
"Well, everyone lives in different sections of the building." This was an utterly new concept to Max. I could see him trying to wrap his head around it.
On the way home, Max asked me all about words that only have three letters, because those are easy to spell, or so he says. Then he wanted to know how to spell transformers.
When I parked my car in front of our house, I took his hand to cross the street. His tiny hand grabbed mine, and the other clutched his precious, new transformer.
Me n' Max(Please don't mistake the bright pink apron as a sign that I can cook now; I still can't.)
4 comments:
So maybe I'm slow on the uptake, but who is Max and who does he belong to and oh my goodness what a cute kid!
Max is my roommate's son. He is a cutie. And a good kid. I was checking your comment and he came to ask what I was doing on the computer. I just introduced him to the world of blogging.
Moving in with a man is a huge step, and I always thought it'd come through marriage. Way to find the loophole!
The house looks great. I am glad that you are enjoying it! Tell Max and Etamine (sp) hello and that I am doing GREAT!
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