Her condo was in a building that only had one other unit connected to it. And the dividing wall between them was the main entryway. It was a good layout. I had always thought it was weird when a condo or apartment butted the bedrooms up against each other. Where was the privacy in that?
Once we got settled in, the two of us sat down on mom's couch. She had made some tea that we were sipping, and I wolfed down a banana to feed my grumbling belly.
"You seem tense," my mom said as a sort of "conversation opener".
"A little," I admitted. I didn't know how the hell she knew that, but she was spot on. I still had attention on the fact that she had spent six hours with my brother and I had no idea what they had done during that time.
She smiled gently at me. My mom did have a way of putting p
