Goddamnit, my face was flushing. All right. My turn to speak. Maybe I should take this opportunity to prove my firm grasp on my first language. “Hi. Yeah, we spent the summer here, and my parents figured hey, why bother going home, let’s hang out here all year.”
Niamh looked puzzled. “Really? That seems like an … unusual thing to do.”
He shoots, he misses. “Um … yeah, no, it was … it was a, uh … a joke … we didn’t really … um … my aunt’s sick, so we’re staying here for a while to help out.”
All three girls stared at me. I stared back at them. Then an enormous black hole opened up in the floor and I happily let it suck me into the depths of the earth.
Rose puffed out her cheeks. “That’s a downer.” Juliette not-so-subtly elbowed her, and Rose made a show of nursing her rib cage. “Jesus,
