Ethan's POV
"You're doing it wrong," Fabian informed me, watching me attempt to frost his birthday cake with the concentration of a man defusing a bomb.
"I'm doing it exactly the way the video showed."
"The video person had, like, a hundred years of practice. You have zero."
"I have some practice. I read the whole book."
"Reading a book isn't the same as doing it, Dad," Fabian said with the patient exasperation of someone explaining a very obvious fact to a very slow adult. "Mama says that all the time about stuff."
"Your mama is annoyingly correct about most things."
"She's in her room, and you should probably say that quieter."
I laughed, and the frosting slid another two inches off true center, and Fabian sighed, the enormous, put-upon sigh of a five-year-old who had clearly exp
